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Problem getting Boinc to run on old computer with Bunsenlab Linux (error code -180)
Hi.
have this old computer that is running BunsenLabs Helium, 32 bit.
general specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
RAM: 1 Gb

I have the idea of just use this computer as a backup file server on my home network, so low spec is not an issue for that use.

I have tried to install BOINC using Synaptic Package manager, seemingly installing without problems.
The first issue : Shortcut to Bonc doesn't appear into the menu (but that is fixable).

But when trying to run BOINC (from Terminal) I get this error:

sudo boinc
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.6.33 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Data directory: /home/grabbaren
execv: No such file or directory
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] GPU detection failed. error code 512
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] No usable GPUs found
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Host name: takkfaen
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ [Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2]
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow eagerfpu 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] OS: Linux: 4.9.0-6-686-pae
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Memory: 1004.19 MB physical, 600.00 MB virtual
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Disk: 21.02 GB total, 19.76 GB free
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Local time is UTC +2 hours
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---] Preferences:
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    max memory usage when active: 502.10MB
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 903.77MB
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    max disk usage: 18.92GB
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    don't use GPU while active
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
08-Apr-2019 21:27:09 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
dir_open: Could not open directory 'slots' from '/home/grabbaren'.
08-Apr-2019 21:27:38 [---] GUI RPC bind to port 31416 failed: 98
08-Apr-2019 21:27:39 gstate.init() failed
Error Code: -180


Except this is a very low spec computer, I really cannot understand the above output.

Is it somehow the hw specs that itself is too low or not supported, or is it more likely to be an issue about Debian support ?
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Re: Problem getting Boinc to run on old computer with Bunsenlab Linux (error code -180)
If you have installed BOINC from the repository, version 7.6.33 installs in /var/lib/boinc-client and expects to run as a service (daemon) for user boinc, not as a user-space application as it might on Windows. (The newest clients install to /var/lib/boinc, making a symlink to boinc-client if it it is already present from an older version so that data is conserved.)

To find out if it is starting automatically (as it should), do 
ps -ef  | grep boinc
to see what, if anything, is going on. For example:
alanb@acer2:~$ ps -ef | grep boinc
boinc     1268     1  0 Apr04 ?        00:08:30 /usr/bin/boinc
alanb     7714  5551  0 Apr04 ?        00:23:55 boincmgr
boinc    10128  1268 99 00:27 ?        02:13:29 ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_fahb_bedam_7.30_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -seed 1310896561 -trickle 0 -upload 0 -wcgval 10000
boinc    10808  1268 99 02:14 ?        00:26:33 ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_mip1_rosetta_7.16_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -in::file::zip MIP1_databasev2.zip @./MIP1_00177189.flags -out::file::silent result_silent.out -run:jran 1172984774 -nstruct 8 -out::level 100 -run::no_scorefile true
alanb    11100  5736  0 02:41 pts/12   00:00:00 grep --color=auto boinc
alanb@acer2:~$
Note the ownership of the boinc client and the two WCG tasks running here...

If it is running, you should be able to interact with it using BOINC Manager (which should also have been installed from the repository) - no need to use sudo.

Hope this helps...

Good luck - Al.

P.S. I'm on XUbuntu 18.04 and using BOINC 7.14.2
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Re: Problem getting Boinc to run on old computer with Bunsenlab Linux (error code -180)

AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+

I have an old system with a CPU from the same AMD family. It is running a variant of Redhat Enterprise 6 server. The same version OS and same version of BOINC run OK on more modern machines to process WCG work.

On this particular machine with the AMD XP CPU, BOINC runs OK - it will download successfully WCG WUs - but all fall and abort as soon as they start to run. Tried all the different projects available. As this machine is only a backup turned on periodically to update the stored backups, it was not worth the time and effort to go any further. I suspect the old AMD doesn't support some more recently added CPU instructions required for WCG WU processing...
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Re: Problem getting Boinc to run on old computer with Bunsenlab Linux (error code -180)
Athlon XP 2000+ does not support SSE2 instructions. I remember seeing something in the forums indicating SSE2 is a requirement for all WCG projects. I had one of these CPUs a long time ago and retired it due to heat and power usage while crunching.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%20XP%202000+%20-%20AX2000DMT3C.html
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  • i5-10400 (Comet Lake, 6C/12T) @ 2.9 GHz
  • i5-7400 (Kaby Lake, 4C/4T) @ 3.0 GHz
  • i5-4590 (Haswell, 4C/4T) @ 3.3 GHz
  • i5-3330 (Ivy Bridge, 4C/4T) @ 3.0 GHz

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Re: Problem getting Boinc to run on old computer with Bunsenlab Linux (error code -180)
Thank you for answering.

You're probably right - the missing sse2 instruction make the computer unable to run updated web browsers as well (most web browsers won't even start - if launched from Terminal won't give anu clues that it is the lack of sse2 that is causing it to fail start).

So I go with lack of sse2 to be the most likely cause of this.
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