Updating to latest Boinc on Berkely site, Linux

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11-02-2013, 01:59 PM
PoppaGeek

Updating to latest Boinc on Berkely site, Linux

I wanted to update Boinc to the latested stable one at Berkely so I could use the app_config.xml file as the latest Boinc from the Ubuntu repositories was 7.0.27 and I needed 7.0.40 at least to use it. While it is still fresh in my mind I thought I would document how I did it. I know D_A has given the directions to do it like this but I could not find it in the forums, so I thought it might be useful with the renewed interest in Linux thanks to MMs adventures.

How To Open Terminal and Use The Command Line

You can copy and paste the commands to a Terminal.
Install Boinc from repositories, if not already installed. If it is installed skip this part. The reason to install from repositories first is it sets up Boinc to start at bootup, creates some symbolic links, installs config files and checks dependencies. The archive does none of this. We use the archive to update the binaries installed by the repository.

Code:

sudo app-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

close Boinc Manager if open.

Now stop boinc from running. When you installed it Boinc was started.

Code:

sudo service boinc-client stop

Download latest Boinc from Berkely to your $HOME directory. $HOME is the system variable for /home/username/. It is best to download to your $HOME directory so you have Read, Write and Execute permission.

You can download using a web browser or you can use the command line if you are not using a desktop.

Type cd and hit enter.

Code:

cd wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.2.28_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh

Change version number to one you wish to retrieve.

cd and hitting enter, will put you in your home directory

NOTE: you do not have to type the entire file name. Type boinc_ and hit tab, it should finish the filename for you. If not type more of the name and hit tab until it does.

Change file permissions to executable.

Code:

sudo chmod a+x boinc_7.0.65_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh

or what version you downloaded

Run file to unpack.

Code:

sudo sh boinc_7.0.65_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh

again substitute the name of the file you downloaded

now cd BOINC the directory name should be all caps.

Code:

cd BOINC

Copy boinc, boinccmd and boincmgr to over write the older version of boinc.

Code:

sudo cp boinc* /usr/bin/

Start boinc-client.

Code:

sudo service boinc-client start

This worked for me on Ubuntu updating 7.0.27 to 7.0.65. I have not used Mint but from what I know about it it should work there as well.

Some of the actions above can be accomplished with variances in what I used. This is what worked me. Please feel free to correct or add to this.

Yes Linux can make you feel stupid. You are not alone if you get to feeling that way when it does not do what you expect or gives an error that makes no sense to you. Enter as much info as you can here there are several experienced Linux people here, one of us will figure it out. :up:

To install 7.2.28 from archive it is the same just use that version number.

Here is how to install 7.0.65 from repositories using ubuntu-backports.

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If you installed boinc from the archives downloaded from Berkely and have been running boinc from $HOME/BOINC and want to use the benefits of the install from the repositories and not loose your current work here is how to do it.

Stop boinc: close boinc-manager and stop boinc-client.

Code:

sudo boinccmd --quit

Install from repositories.

Code:

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

if you do not want to run the manager leave that part out. It does not matter which version is installed by this.

The install process will start boinc-client when it is finished. Stop it.

Code:

sudo service boinc-client stop

If you want to use the binaries from your $HOME/BOINC install then: ~/ is another variable for your home directory.

Code:

sudo cp ~/BOINC/boinc* /usr/bin/

Then change to the boinc install in your home directory.

Code:

cd ~/BOINC

Now become superuser or root.

Code:

sudo -s

Present Working Directory.

Code:

pwd

make sure it shows you in BOINC. /home/username/BOINC

copy recursively the projects folder or directory from ~/BOINC to /var/lib/boinc-client, over writing any thing there.

Code:

cp -r projects /var/lib/boinc-client/

Code:

cd /var/lib/boinc-client

Change ownership of all files and directories recursively in projects directory to user boinc in group boinc

Code:

chown -R boinc:boinc projects

Leave superuser mode.

Code:

exit

Start boinc-client

Code:

sudo service boinc-client start

If you see some errors do not panic. Hit the UP ARROW key and hit ENTER. Open boinc-manager or a terminal window and top. Work units should show running with no work lost.

If you screw up, everything in $HOME/BOINC should still be there so just start over. If you need to start from the very beginning just:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge boinc-client boinc-manager

You really should not need to remove the install. Nothing we did should effect the current work units. You can also use copy and paste to reduce typing errors.
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If for some reason you want to run the projects work units from $HOME/BOINC but use the scripts that are installed by the repositories that start boinc on bootup there are instructions here.
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To stop Update Managers from updating your boinc install on Ubuntu, Mint and other Debian based distros.

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Many thanks to OldChap and D_A for suggestions and error checking. :toast:
11-02-2013, 02:03 PM
D_A

I would add only one thing at the end of the procedure:

sudo service boinc-client start
11-02-2013, 02:06 PM
D_A

If for some reason anyone does this and boinc or the manager won't run, open a terminal and type

Code:

ldd boinc

or

Code:

ldd boincmgr

This will identify what libraries are required for your installed boinc version and what you do or do not have on your system and will make fault finding a lot faster.
11-02-2013, 02:15 PM
OldChap

Thanks to you both.

I expect the one you were talking about Poppa was at http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d-forget/page5 or thereabouts

Good timing For SCW
11-02-2013, 02:22 PM
PoppaGeek

@ D_A thanks added :up:

@ OC yes that looks like the one. I like how he did it, a little less typing. Changed. :up:
11-02-2013, 03:45 PM
PoppaGeek

Something OC said in a PM got me thinking. I used to compile kernels before Linux and FreeBSD supplied generic kernels that supported SMP. While enabling SMP I would strip out support for hardware and services I did not have or use. This made for a smaller kernel.

Anyone ever try this on a cruncher and compare before and after, same hardware generic kernel vs custom complied? It's been a few years but I may try it if no one else has. Be interesting to see if there would be a performance gain. I doubt it would be significant but might be interesting just the same.
11-02-2013, 06:30 PM
D_A

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoppaGeek

Something OC said in a PM got me thinking. I used to compile kernels before Linux and FreeBSD supplied generic kernels that supported SMP. While enabling SMP I would strip out support for hardware and services I did not have or use. This made for a smaller kernel.

Anyone ever try this on a cruncher and compare before and after, same hardware generic kernel vs custom complied? It's been a few years but I may try it if no one else has. Be interesting to see if there would be a performance gain. I doubt it would be significant but might be interesting just the same.

Yes. Currently I have three Sossaman machines under my desk. Two with generic "server" kernels (PAE enabled but no other significant changes) and one with a custom kernel I did myself (heavily customised). The custom kernel is SLIGHTLY more efficient than the generic, but it's not by much.
11-02-2013, 06:49 PM
nanoprobe

Question for ya D_A. I had boinc installed on mint that had a HDD failure. I managed to get the boinc data directory off the drive before it quit. I did a fresh install on another machine and tried to use the old data directory on the new install but boinc won't start. When I try to run the boinc manager a gedit window opens with the text below in the window. Is there any way to fix that this so I can use the old boinc data directory on the new install. I swap them on windows all the time but this is my first attempt on Linux. Thanks.

cd "/home/david/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@
11-02-2013, 06:53 PM
D_A

chmod +x run_manager
chmod +x run_client

Your script on the new install doesn't have execute permission.

edit: sometimes double clicking on the script will do that regardless of the execute permissions. Try opening a console in your BOINC folder (or cd'ing to it in an open terminal) and entering ./run_manager and see if it works.
11-03-2013, 05:46 AM
PoppaGeek

TO try and explain what we are trying to do here:

By installing from the repositories we are setting up Boinc to run at bootup, automatically. The archive you download from Berkely does NOT do this. But the Berkely one will always be the latest version. So we download the one from there and copy the newest binaries over the older ones. You still have all the startup files, which are not version specific and the newest binaries.

The ONLY files you should be concerned about from the Berkely archive are the boinc, boinccmd and boincmgr.

The repositories will install from a package that sets up all startup files and sets permissions ans creates directories.

The archive from Berkely are the minimal needed files to run boinc from the command line, not automatically, from wherever you unpack the archive.
11-03-2013, 06:00 AM
OldChap

So, for folks like me who didn't quite get it back along about getting the original from the repositories, is there a chance to rescue the situation and keep the current stats but also get it to auto start?

I, for example, have everything(?) installed in the BOINC folder. I will need to move or delete some stuff then start afresh I guess.... whaddaya think?
11-03-2013, 06:07 AM
Rob_B

Can we have a list of where all the boinc files are installed from the repositories? The files are all over the place. I think it was DA that once said they where spread like hippo manure.
11-03-2013, 06:15 AM
PoppaGeek

I upgraded 3 Ubuntu boxes yesterday using the above method. All picked up where the old version was. All tasks were restarted and finished. :up:

Startup scripts and config files are in /etc/boinc-client

binaries are in /usr/bin

work units, app_config.xml etc are all in /var/lib/boinc-client and /var/lib/boinc-client/projects

Libraries are all in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and to me at a glance are all shared. The download from Berkley does not contain or include any libraries so they must all be shared.

@OC if you install from repositories copy all files in $HOME/BOINC/projects to /var/lib/boinc-client/projects

If you get permission errors even using sudo you can sudo -s but be careful and double think about what you are doing and typing. Type exit as soon as you get done.
11-03-2013, 06:36 AM
PoppaGeek

poppageek@8356x2deb:/etc/boinc-client$
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 101 root root 4096 Nov 2 22:04 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root boinc 531 Oct 20 11:22 cc_config.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root boinc 1498 Oct 27 09:36 global_prefs_override.xml
-rw-r----- 1 root boinc 1 May 25 2012 gui_rpc_auth.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root boinc 295 Jul 11 14:53 remote_hosts.cfg

------------------------------------------------------------

poppageek@8356x2deb:/var/lib/boinc-client$ ls -al
total 4420
drwxr-xr-x 5 boinc boinc 4096 Nov 3 08:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jul 12 19:04 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 4724 Nov 2 17:16 account_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 46927 Nov 2 16:26 all_projects_list.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 12 19:04 ca-bundle.crt -> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 12 19:04 cc_config.xml -> /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 604649 Nov 3 08:35 client_state_prev.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 604649 Nov 3 08:35 client_state.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 10641 Nov 3 08:36 daily_xfer_history.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 9675 Oct 23 08:32 get_current_version.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 2046 Jul 12 19:04 get_project_config.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jul 12 19:04 global_prefs_override.xml -> /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 6418 Nov 2 16:52 global_prefs.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 12 19:04 gui_rpc_auth.cfg -> /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 771120 Nov 3 08:35 job_log_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 0 Nov 2 16:26 lockfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 142 Jul 12 19:05 lookup_account.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 13106 Nov 2 16:26 lookup_website.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 41476 Jul 12 19:05 master_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml
drwxrwx--x 2 boinc boinc 4096 Nov 2 16:26 notices
drwxrwx--x 3 boinc boinc 4096 Oct 28 15:32 projects
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 12 19:04 remote_hosts.cfg -> /etc/boinc-client/remote_hosts.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 36088 Nov 3 08:35 sched_reply_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 47352 Nov 3 08:35 sched_request_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml
drwxrwx--x 10 boinc boinc 4096 Nov 2 16:26 slots
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 10368 Nov 3 08:35 statistics_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 24303 Oct 31 16:52 stderrdae.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 2097180 Nov 2 03:23 stdoutdae.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 115084 Nov 3 08:35 stdoutdae.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 2833 Nov 2 16:27 time_stats_log

-------------------------------------------------------------

ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied
poppageek@8356x2deb:/var/lib/boinc-client/projects$ sudo -s
root@8356x2deb:/var/lib/boinc-client/projects# ls -al
total 84
drwxrwx--x 3 boinc boinc 4096 Nov 3 08:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 boinc boinc 4096 Nov 3 08:36 ..
drwxrwx--x 2 boinc boinc 73728 Nov 3 08:35 www.worldcommunitygrid.org

-----------------------------------------------------------------

root@8356x2deb:/usr/bin# ls -al boinc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 934352 Nov 2 16:25 boinc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261280 Nov 2 16:25 boinccmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1908528 Nov 2 16:25 boincmgr

When you see something like this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 12 19:04 ca-bundle.crt -> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

it is a link. The actual file is in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

EDIT:
Startup script called by init
/etc/init.d/boinc-client
11-03-2013, 10:18 AM
nanoprobe

Quote:

Originally Posted by D_A

edit: sometimes double clicking on the script will do that regardless of the execute permissions. Try opening a console in your BOINC folder (or cd'ing to it in an open terminal) and entering ./run_manager and see if it works.

I get permission denied. I tried sudo ./run_manager and still permission denied.
11-03-2013, 12:00 PM
D_A

Quote:

Originally Posted by nanoprobe

I get permission denied. I tried sudo ./run_manager and still permission denied.

Ok, check the file permissions and ownership. If it belongs to another user, such as root, you could well not be able to run it, and if it doesn't have execute permission you won't be able to run it. Make sure both the scripty (run_manager) and the binary file (boincmgr) both have execute permission.

sudo chown <username> <filename>
chmod +x <filename>
11-03-2013, 12:34 PM
PoppaGeek

Forgot the statup script so added it to list of file locations.
11-08-2013, 04:24 PM
PoppaGeek

Someone asked for a list of all the files the boinc_X.X.X.deb file installs. I am looking to see how hard it is to build debian/Ubuntu packages and here is the list of files installed by apt-get:

/.
/etc
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/boinc
/etc/boinc-client
/etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml
/etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
/etc/boinc-client/remote_hosts.cfg
/etc/default
/etc/default/boinc-client
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/boinc-client
/lib
/lib/udev
/lib/udev/rules.d
/lib/udev/rules.d/40-boinc-client.rules
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/boinc
/usr/bin/boinccmd
/usr/bin/update-boinc-applinks
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/boinc-client
/usr/lib/boinc-client/switcher
/usr/share
/usr/share/boinc-client
/usr/share/boinc-client/udev-cpu_share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/boinc-client
/usr/share/bug/boinc-client/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/README.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/checkin_notes.gz
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/copyright
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/examples
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/examples/move-boinc-dir.sh
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/boinc-client
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/ar
/usr/share/locale/ar/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/be
/usr/share/locale/be/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg
/usr/share/locale/bg/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca
/usr/share/locale/ca/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs
/usr/share/locale/cs/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy
/usr/share/locale/cy/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/da
/usr/share/locale/da/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/el
/usr/share/locale/el/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/es
/usr/share/locale/es/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa
/usr/share/locale/fa/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi
/usr/share/locale/fi/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr
/usr/share/locale/fr/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl
/usr/share/locale/gl/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr
/usr/share/locale/hr/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu
/usr/share/locale/hu/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/it
/usr/share/locale/it/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja
/usr/share/locale/ja/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko
/usr/share/locale/ko/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt
/usr/share/locale/lt/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv
/usr/share/locale/lv/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb
/usr/share/locale/nb/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl
/usr/share/locale/nl/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn
/usr/share/locale/nn/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl
/usr/share/locale/pl/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro
/usr/share/locale/ro/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru
/usr/share/locale/ru/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk
/usr/share/locale/sk/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl
/usr/share/locale/sl/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv_SE
/usr/share/locale/sv_SE/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr
/usr/share/locale/tr/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk
/usr/share/locale/uk/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/boinc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/boinccmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/update-boinc-applinks.1.gz

Good reason to install the debian package first then update via Berkely download. :up:

It also checks dependencies, sets environment varibles and scheduling/startup scripts.
11-08-2013, 04:50 PM
PoppaGeek

While poking around in the Ubuntu Software Center on the Boinc page there is a drop down above the screenshot of Boinc and it lists a backport for v7.0.65+dfsg(precise-backports). In other words version 7.0.65. :shrug:

If you do not see backports:
11-14-2013, 11:53 AM
PoppaGeek

I just installed version 7.2.28 and it is running fine. Picked up all work units that were under way.

Sometimes when restarting boinc-client after upgrading i get error messages. I just hit up arrow key and enter, same command as before and it runs fine.

Quote:

poppageek@ghostN ~/Downloads/BOINC $ sudo cp boinc* /usr/bin
poppageek@ghostN ~/Downloads/BOINC $ sudo service boinc-client start
* Starting BOINC core client: boinc [ OK ]
* Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children: chrt: failed to set pid 22085's policy: No such process
chrt: failed to set pid 22085's policy: No such process
chrt: failed to set pid 22085's policy: No such process
Could not write to /proc/22085/oom_adj
[ OK ]
poppageek@ghostN ~/Downloads/BOINC $ sudo service boinc-client start
* Starting BOINC core client: boinc [ OK ]
* Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children: [ OK ]

Don't know what is going here yet but there are no errors on work units

Quote:

poppageek@ghostN ~/Downloads/BOINC $ boinccmd -V
boinccmd, built from BOINC 7.2.28

EDIT:
From what I can tell boinc did not find the PID, Process ID it thought it would. No biggie. Just try again.
11-15-2013, 03:08 PM
PoppaGeek

I added a section to the first post on how to move current work from a archive install to a repositories install. Advise of errors plz.
11-16-2013, 12:06 AM
D_A

I just looked into what's required to get the latest Folding @ Home client running on my Slackware system.

:rofl:

By comparison all this jiggery pokery with BOINC is absolute child's play!
11-16-2013, 10:09 AM
PoppaGeek

This works but there is a gotcha. Permissions and file ownership.

I do not want to further complicate all this but I found another way to use the advantages of repository install and what you have in $HOME/BOINC.

If you install from the repositories /etc/default/boinc-client will be installed. As seen below there is a setting for the data directory.

/etc/default/boinc-client

Code:

# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the # /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script. # Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script. ENABLED="1" # Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and # all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's # performance). SCHEDULE="1" # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user. BOINC_USER="boinc" # This is the data directory of the BOINC core client. BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client" # This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses. # If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client # package, you can specify here an alternative client program. #BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc" BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc" # Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client. # Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options. #BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc" BOINC_OPTS=""

You could change these to point to your install in the home directory. /home/yourusername/BOINC

So Boinc will start on boot and use the work units in the home directory from the archive install.

So for me it would look like this:

/etc/default/boinc-client

Code:

# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the # /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script. # Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script. ENABLED="1" # Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and # all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's # performance). SCHEDULE="1" # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user. BOINC_USER="boinc" # This is the data directory of the BOINC core client. BOINC_DIR="/home/poppageek/BOINC" # This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses. # If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client # package, you can specify here an alternative client program. #BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc" BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc" # Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client. # Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options. #BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc" BOINC_OPTS=""

You HAVE TO HAVE a full install from the repositories. This script is used by another script /etc/init.d/boinc-client and alone will do nothing.

The install from repositories sets boinc-client to run as user boinc. Since you are probably running boinc from $HOME/BOINC you are most likely running as your login name. So you will need to change ownership of the BOINC directory to boinc.

Stop Boinc-client

Code:

sudo boinccmd --quit

Edit /etc/default/boinc-client and change BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client" to BOINC_DIR="/home/YOURUSERNAME/BOINC"

You can change the BOINC_USER="boinc" to your username or you can change the ownership of the BOINC directory and all it's files.

Change owner to boinc.

Code:

cd sudo chown -R boinc:boinc BOINC

And leave the setting in the /etc/defaults/boinc-client file BOINC_CLIENT=/usr/bin/boinc.

Copy boinc, boincmd and boincmgr to /usr/bin.

Code:

cd ~/BOINC sudo cp boinc* /usr/bin/

If you have done it all correctly then this should work.

Code:

sudo service boinc-client start

If I am not being clear plz speak up.

Yes, jiggery and pokery, that's it. :yepp:
11-16-2013, 11:36 AM
PoppaGeek

Here is the script that starts boinc-client on bootup. As you can see it does a lot. I have considered editing it down to just being a startup script and someone may want to do that. I have decided not to do it for the simple reason it is too easy to install from the repositories and update from the latest archive. It works well and from what I have seen has all benefits and no disadvantages.

But if you want to do it for your own reasons here it is. It reads the file /etc/default/boinc-client, in above post, for some settings.

/etc/init.d/boinc-client

Code:

#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: boinc boinc-client # Required-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Should-Start: x11-common network-manager gdm kdm dbus # Should-Stop: x11-common # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: BOINC core client # Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing # infrastructure ### END INIT INFO # Debian init.d script for the BOINC core client # Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 # Debian BOINC Maintainers <pkg-boinc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> # # This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, # Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. set -e . /lib/lsb/init-functions # Default values for the variables that are also set in the defaults file. ENABLED=0 SCHEDULE=0 BOINC_USER=boinc BOINC_DIR=/var/lib/boinc-client BOINC_CLIENT=/usr/bin/boinc BOINC_OOM_ADJ=15 #VALGRIND_OPTIONS="-v --log-file=/tmp/valgrind_boinc.log " VALGRIND_OPTIONS="" # Source defaults file. Edit that file to configure this script. if [ -e /etc/default/boinc-client ]; then . /etc/default/boinc-client fi # Quit quietly, if $ENABLED is 0. test "$ENABLED" != "0" || exit 0 if [ "$BOINC_CLIENT" = "/usr/bin/boinc" ]; then test -x "$BOINC_CLIENT" || exit 0 elif [ ! -x "$BOINC_CLIENT" ]; then log_failure_msg "BOINC client '$BOINC_CLIENT' does not exist or is not" \ "executable." exit 5 fi if [ ! -d "$BOINC_DIR" ]; then log_failure_msg "BOINC data directory '$BOINC_DIR' does not exist." exit 6 fi if [ -z "$BOINC_USER" ]; then log_failure_msg "BOINC_USER variable is empty. Set it to a user to run" \ "the BOINC core client." exit 6 fi if [ ! -z "$BOINC_OPTS" ]; then (echo $BOINC_OPTS | grep -- '--daemon' 1>/dev/null) && log_warning_msg "\`--daemon' option detected \ on /etc/default/boinc-client, this \ can cause problems on boinc. The option \ will be suppressed" BOINC_OPTS=`echo "$BOINC_OPTS" | sed 's/--daemon//g'` fi PIDFILE=/var/run/boinc.pid DESC="BOINC core client" NAME=`basename $BOINC_CLIENT` BOINC_OPTS="--check_all_logins --redirectio --dir $BOINC_DIR $BOINC_OPTS" is_running() { retval=1 if [ -r $PIDFILE ]; then pid=`cat $PIDFILE` if [ -e /proc/$pid ]; then procname=`/bin/ps h -p $pid` [ -n "$procname" ] && retval=0 fi fi return $retval } start() { log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then log_progress_msg "already running" else if [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -x /usr/bin/xhost ]; then # grant the boinc client to perform GPU computing xhost local:boinc || echo -n "xhost error ignored, GPU computing may not be possible" fi if [ -n "$VALGRIND_OPTIONS" ]; then start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --make-pidfile --user $BOINC_USER --chuid $BOINC_USER \ --chdir $BOINC_DIR --exec /usr/bin/valgrind -- $VALGRIND_OPTIONS $BOINC_CLIENT $BOINC_OPTS else start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --make-pidfile --user $BOINC_USER --chuid $BOINC_USER \ --chdir $BOINC_DIR --exec $BOINC_CLIENT -- $BOINC_OPTS fi fi log_end_msg 0 if [ "$SCHEDULE" = "1" ]; then schedule fi } stop() { log_begin_msg "Stopping $DESC: $NAME" if ! is_running; then log_progress_msg "not running" else start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --user $BOINC_USER --exec $BOINC_CLIENT # Wait until really stopped - $pid is set from is_running # (waiting for max 60s (600 cycles at 100ms)) i=0 while kill -0 "$pid" 2> /dev/null; do if [ $i = '600' ]; then break; else if [ $i = '0' ]; then echo -n " ... waiting " elif [ $(($i%10)) = 0 ]; then echo -n "." fi i=$(($i+1)) sleep .1 fi done fi rm -f "$BOINC_DIR/lockfile" rm -f $PIDFILE log_end_msg 0 } chrt_many() { POLICY="$1" PRIO="$2" NICE="$3" shift 3 for i in "$@"; do chrt -p $POLICY $PRIO $i || return # increasing compatibility with older versions of renice # in reaction to bug report #600134 renice $NICE -p $i > /dev/null || renice -n $NICE -p $i done } schedule() { log_begin_msg "Setting up scheduling for $DESC and children:" if ! is_running; then log_progress_msg "$NAME not running" else if [ ! -x "`which ionice 2>/dev/null`" ]; then log_progress_msg "ionice not found," else if ionice -c 3 -p $pid 2>/dev/null; then log_progress_msg "idle," else log_progress_msg "ionice failed," fi fi children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '` if [ ! -x "`which chrt 2>/dev/null`" ]; then log_progress_msg "chrt not found" else # BOINC client needs higher priority than scientific apps renice 0 -p $pid > /dev/null || renice -n 0 -p $pid # Apps receive minimal priority if [ -n "$children" ]; then (chrt_many --idle 0 10 $children >/dev/null \ && log_progress_msg "idleprio") || \ (chrt_many --batch 0 10 $children >/dev/null \ && log_progress_msg "batch") || \ (chrt_many --other 0 10 $children >/dev/null \ && log_progress_msg "normal") || \ log_progress_msg "chrt failed" fi fi for BPID in ${pid} ${children}; do if [ -w /proc/${BPID}/oom_adj ]; then echo ${BOINC_OOM_AD} > /proc/${BPID}/oom_adj 2>/dev/null || true else echo "Could not write to /proc/${BPID}/oom_adj" fi done fi log_end_msg 0 } status() { STATUS="Status of $DESC:" if is_running; then log_success_msg "$STATUS running" children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '` if [ -x "`which chrt 2>/dev/null`" ]; then log_success_msg "Scheduling of $DESC: $pid" chrt -p $pid if [ -n "$children" ]; then log_success_msg "Scheduling of $DESC's children: $children" for i in $children; do chrt -p $i done fi fi log_success_msg "OOM killer status for $DESC:" for BPID in ${pid} ${children}; do echo -n "PID ${BPID}: " if [ ! -d "/proc/${BPID}" ]; then echo "/proc/${BPID} not found" continue fi echo -n "adj " if [ -r "/proc/${BPID}/oom_adj" ]; then cat /proc/${BPID}/oom_adj else echo "?" fi echo ", score " if [ -r "/proc/${BPID}/oom_adj" ]; then cat /proc/${BPID}/oom_score else echo -n "?" fi echo done # Display $BOINC_USER's cpu_share: uid=`id -u $BOINC_USER` cpu_share_file="/sys/kernel/uids/$uid/cpu_share" if [ -f "$cpu_share_file" ]; then log_success_msg "cpu_share: `cat "$cpu_share_file"`" fi else log_success_msg "$STATUS stopped" fi } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|force-reload) stop sleep 1 start ;; status) status ;; schedule) schedule ;; *) log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status|schedule}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
11-18-2013, 05:51 PM
PoppaGeek

Added some info on what commands were doing and some minor editing.

Please advise of mistakes.

Thanks
11-19-2013, 09:03 AM
PoppaGeek

Mint users, good news and bad news.

Usually I do not look though the list of updates in the update manager. Today I did and noticed boinc, boinc-client and boinc-manager all in the list. Version 7.0.65. Very nice for MInt. Very bad if you have updated to 7.2.28. Make sure you uncheck those if you are at 7.2.28 and want to stay there.

EDIT:
Found a solution to this in post below.
11-19-2013, 01:08 PM
D_A

Alternatively, just let the update run so it doesn't pester you again and go through the manual update procedure right after.
11-19-2013, 01:24 PM
PoppaGeek

To stop Update Managers from updating your install of boinc:

Mint:
Open Update Manager click on Edit>Preferences>Ignored Packages tab

Add boinc, boinc-client and boinc-manager each separately and click apply. Close and Refresh.

http://img.techpowerup.org/131130/Selection_002.jpg

For Ubuntu, I have not seen Boinc show up in Update Manager , but if it does on yours:

Command line:

Code:

sudo apt-mark hold boinc boinc-client boinc-manager

Via GUI Synaptic Package Manager:

Quote:

1 - Go to Synaptic Package Manager

2 - Enter [package name] into the search field

3 - Highlight the installed package

4 - Click on Package on the top row

5 - Select Lock Version

Done, now [package name] will no longer be updated.

http://img.techpowerup.org/131119/h137z.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/131119/MP8NZ.png
11-27-2013, 07:13 AM
BlindFreddie

New new version of BOINC: 7.2.33
Seems there were a few "Oops!" -es with 7.2.28: ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes)
-----------------------------------------------

Summary of new features 7.2.31

Fix: Disable downloading of images in notices. It was crashing BOINC Manager.

Summary of new features 7.2.33

client and manager: the set_cc_config and get_cc_config GUI RPCs had nonstandard replies, which weren't parsed correctly by the calling code.

OpenCL support for CPU

BOINC 7.2 has OpenCL support for CPUs, but this does require that you install OpenCL drivers for your CPU.
------------------
Surely 7.2.28 should have been classified as "Development", not "Recommended", Versions, though some non-WCG projects may have been sweating on the OpenCL support for CPUs.

And I wish they'd fix some of the basics, instead of the esoterics. Like:
- Give ability to copy text of selected tasks in BOINCmgr's Advanced View Tasks tab. Useful for reporting things to project fora.
- BOINCmgr sort order of displayed tasks: Where tasks have equal values in the column selected for sort ordering, eg 0% complete, leave listing of tasks in order received, which is the default order in which they will be run. Usually this is the case, but occasionally it sneakily rearranges some to be out of order, a PITA if you're micro-managing.
Workaround: Hitting Ctrl+Shift+V (switch to simple view), then Ctrl+Shift+A (back to advanced view) puts tasks back in order - for a while.
- BOINC client to make sensible choice of which running task to suspend on occasions when it decides to suspend one, eg to run another task under High Priority, or to comply with a reduced <max_concurrent> directive in the app_config.xml file. ATM, it grabs the qualifying task that has the highest % complete, but surely the task(s) with the lowest % complete or longest estimated completion time would be the best choice. On startup, it gets the choice right (priority to run the tasks at the opposite end of that order). The prioritising code is there for startup - they just have to apply it again when suspending, but this time choose & suspend the task with lowest priority to run instead of the highest. [/rant]

[rant back on] And somebody please grab Fugger very firmly by the throat and squeeze hard until he increases the auto-logoff timeout for this forum. I hate being logged off several times while I'm composing posts :mad: [/rant]
11-27-2013, 08:15 AM
PoppaGeek

I had 3 PCs on 7.2.28 and have not had any problems but the ones on 7.0.65 will stay there. One of the 7.2.28 will go to 7.2.33. Should have just stayed at 7.0.65 as never saw any benefits to upgrading anyway.

EDIT
I take it back. One Windows PC has had E@H scheduling issues ever since I updated the Boinc. Rollback time.
12-04-2013, 07:58 AM
PoppaGeek

I have successfully unpacked a boinc-client .deb file, upgraded the binaries and repacked and then installed. It works. Also not really different from just installing from repositories and downloading new version from Berkely and moving the binaries, just a lot more steps.

IMHO the best way is the first in the thread. Certainly the most straight forward.
12-04-2013, 07:42 PM
PoppaGeek

How to replace binaies in a .deb file:

Pull out the files in data.tar.gz in archive boinc-client_7.0.24+dfsg-1_amd64.deb

Code:

ar p boinc-client_7.0.24+dfsg-1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx

You will see 3 directories: ./etc, ./lib and ./bin

copy boinc and boincmd from Berkely archive to ./bin/

Code:

cp ~/BOINC/boinc ./bin/ cp ~/BOINC/boinccmd ./bin/

create new data.tar.gz with the three directories

Code:

tar -zcvf data.tar.gz ./etc ./lib ./usr

Now replace the data.tar.gz in the .deb package with the new one you just created.

Code:

ar r boinc-client_7.0.24+dfsg-1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz

Install

Code:

dpkg -i package-name-here.deb

If there are problems purge installation and all config files and directories created by install.

Code:

dpkg -P package-name-here.deb

Or just remove startup scripts and binaries leaving project files and directories.

Code:

dpkg -r package-name-here.deb

Boinc should start on bootup and use /var/lib/boinc-client for project files.

To see the contents of a .deb package.

Code:

lesspipe boinc-client_7.2.33+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
12-04-2013, 08:14 PM
PoppaGeek

FYI ia32-libs has been replaced with lib32z1.

Quote:

Package: lib32z1
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 169
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13ubuntu2
Replaces: ia32-libs (<< 1.5)
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4)
Conflicts: libc6-i386 (<= 2.9-18)
Filename: pool/main/z/zlib/lib32z1_1.2.7.dfsg-13ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 55674
MD5sum: 093c3ecb54beeb8e712e0b0278ea1233
SHA1: 5bef167658c3206974fde5321942ca17d9d6fa42
SHA256: f58894d25b8ba6914623eaad69b2b4243655ffa463faa488db 2a01897ba5ad84
Description-en: compression library - 32 bit runtime
zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found
in gzip and PKZIP. This package includes a 32 bit version of the
shared library.
Homepage: http://zlib.net/
Description-md5: 8844cb824b8b6f7b621a350ef76f732a
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
12-18-2013, 12:51 PM
PoppaGeek

For those that have boinc installed in the $HOME directory from archives gotten from Berkely I found a prebuilt init script to start boinc on bootup. You will need to look for

BOINCDIR=/var/lib/boinc and BOINCEXE=/usr/bin/boinc_client and set the directories to where boinc is installed and where the boinc-client is installed. I would assume it would be /home/yourusername/BOINC. There are also some other settings you need to look at. BUILD_ARCH=i686-pc-linux-gnu is for 32 bit Linux, BUILD_ARCH=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu for 64 bit.

Info and instructions Installing and Running the BOINC client on Unix Scroll down to 3.4 Get BOINC to start automatically

I have not tried out his instructions but they look good and should work.
12-18-2013, 01:37 PM
OldChap

Consider the thanks button pushed....twice :)
12-18-2013, 01:42 PM
PoppaGeek

Yeah I thought of you when I saw it. I am sure you can get it to work. :up:

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