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Thread: Mapping Cancer Markers Beta Test February 19, 2018 [Issues thread] |
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armstrdj
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Post Count: 695 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Please post your issues for the beta announced below in this thread.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=567365 Thanks, armstrdj |
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alanb1951
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I have had some of these run on XUbuntu 16.04, both 32-bit (a VM running kernel 4.13.0-31) and 64-bit (kernels 4.10.0-42 and 4.13.0-26).
----------------------------------------As this is to test the graphics, I checked out the graphics (which I don't usually run!), and on two of the machines I checked it displays the progress bar and the logos, but the title, descriptive text and graphics that show up on the non-Beta graphics are absent. On the 64-bit machine running 4.13 kernel the non-beta graphics work but the beta graphics program doesn't even open a window! (I have another machine running a 4.4 kernel that has never displayed graphics for any WCG application, so I've ignored that one!) So that's a fail on my systems, sorry to say; I hope you get better news from elsewhere! [Edited to correct kernel version on the "graphics never worked" kernel...] [Edit 1 times, last edit by alanb1951 at Feb 20, 2018 3:44:23 AM] |
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Windows 10 Pro 16299.64 64 bit boinc 7.82
Windows 10 Pro 15063.674 64 bit boinc 7.633 Both systems I don't get past the progress bar for the beta. Other wcg projects seem to be ok. |
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armstrdj
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Sorry should have posted in the announcement that since this is beta you will not see the updated graphics since they are project specific. This is more a test just to make sure nothing crashes and the science applications have not been modified.
alanb1951, for the one you have that doesn't open the graphics window if you still have any running or waiting to run you may be able to get some info from why it is not running. Try and launch the graphics then find the slot directory where it is running and look for the file stderrgfx.txt. Thanks, armstrdj |
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alanb1951
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Sorry should have posted in the announcement that since this is beta you will not see the updated graphics since they are project specific. This is more a test just to make sure nothing crashes and the science applications have not been modified. alanb1951, for the one you have that doesn't open the graphics window if you still have any running or waiting to run you may be able to get some info from why it is not running. Try and launch the graphics then find the slot directory where it is running and look for the file stderrgfx.txt. Thanks, armstrdj Firstly, thanks for the clarification as to what I should've expected to see! I hadn't seen any more of these beta jobs so I decided to wait a while before responding, so I could follow this up properly if possible. So, in the absence of any test jobs, I had a look at the beta graphics binary using ldd to see if it uses any libraries the production graphics doesn't and, sure enough, it wants libglut.so.3 and libjpeg.so.62, neither of which are installed by default on Ubuntu 16.04 (and beyond) as far as I am aware. I had added them manually to other systems because of other BOINC projects, which explains successful tests on other machines, but this box is WCG-only so I hadn't bothered, and the production WCG graphics seemed to work anyway! Fortunately, another beta job has just shown up on the machine in question and I spotted it in time, so I tested again now the relevant packages (freeglut3 and libjpeg62) had been added. It now works as expected. I note that the existing production graphics programs don't seem to use those two libraries, so some people who run BOINC on "default" Linux systems and like the graphics may be in for a surprise when this goes production! Cheers - Al. [Edit - rephrased last paragraph.] [Edit 1 times, last edit by alanb1951 at Feb 21, 2018 6:35:13 PM] |
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