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No graphics, Microbiome Immunity Project
When I have a Microbiome Immunity Project task running, and click "Show Graphics", nothing happens. "Show Graphics" works for other World Community Grid projects, and for SETI@home. This is using the BOINC manager.

How can I enable "show graphics" for this project?

I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 17.04 with KDE 5, BOINC version 7.6.33

What have I already tried?

  • Under OpenSuSE, my previous O/S, when I had a problem like this, I could run BOINC manager from a command prompt (console). Error messages would appear in the console. But, when I try this with Ubuntu, the error messages do not appear.
  • I also tried using the BOINC command tool, as documented in the BOINC Wiki . But, either I don't know how to use it properly, or it recognizes neither the graphics_window nor the graphics_fullscreen options.
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Re: No graphics, Microbiome Immunity Project
Pass. Generally OpenGL support is needed, but if your boinccmd commands work for other sciences, it'd have to work for MIP1 too.
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Re: No graphics, Microbiome Immunity Project
The graphics program for this project uses some libraries that [most of] the other WCG projects don't seem to use...

Try adding the packages freeglut3 and libjpeg62 if they aren't already installed (they weren't on my XUbuntu 16.04) -- once I'd installed those, MIP1 graphics worked on the machine I tested on...

If the relevant libraries were already there, I'm at a loss to explain it -- do check to see if there are any other missing libraries, though -- the ldd command is your friend!

Good luck solving this - Al.
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Re: No graphics, Microbiome Immunity Project
freeglut3 was already installed, but libjpeg62 wasn't. I added it, but now I have to wait until I get another MIP task to find out if it worked.
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Re: No graphics, Microbiome Immunity Project
That fixed it! After adding libjpeg62 , the MIP graphics now show! Thanks!
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Re: No graphics
Updated my O/S to Ubuntu 17.10. BOINC is now 7.8.3 (64 bit). KDE Plasma 5.10.5

"Show Graphics" works on NO running BOINC task. The symptoms are the same as before: I might see a the outline of a rectangle very quickly flash on the screen, as if a new window is being created. But, it is visible for a fraction of a second, if at all. There is no error message.

Installing freeglut3 and libjpeg62 made no difference this time.

This time, I also have the problem with SETI@home.

I assume I need to install more library packages, but how do I find out which?

By the way, I installed BOINC with Discover package manager.
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Re: No graphics
marathon,
A couple of things you can try. First any of our graphics apps, and probably other BOINC projects as well, will create a log in the slot directory it is running in for the graphics application called "stderrgfx.txt". See if you can cat one of those for one of our graphics projects that you have tried to launch and let me know if there are any errors in there. The second thing is you can run ldd on the graphics binary and it should tell you if there are any other graphics libraries you are missing. The graphics binaries should be in the boinc data directory under projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ and will be named similar to wcgrid_scc1_gfx_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.

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Re: No graphics
Nothing in stderrgfx.txt. For ldd, I get results like this: 

ldd wcgrid_fahb_gfx_7.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffdb617e000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1 (0x00007f52b9a9b000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f52b9753000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f52b9413000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6 (0x00007f52b91f3000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f52b8e6b000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f52b8b13000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f52b88fb000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f52b86db000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f52b82fb000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f52b9d0b000)
        libnvidia-tls.so.384.111 => /usr/lib/nvidia-384/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.384.111 (0x00007f52b80f3000)
        libnvidia-glcore.so.384.111 => /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libnvidia-glcore.so.384.111 (0x00007f52b6233000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f52b601b000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f52b5e13000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f52b5beb000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 (0x00007f52b597b000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f52b5773000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f52b556b000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f52b5363000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f52b5143000)
        libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f52b4f2b000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f52b4d23000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f52b4b1b000)
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