Ubuntu 9.1 & BOINC

[PoppaGeek]

I have tried to get BOINC running on Ubuntu 9.10 with several problems. I have tried 6.4.5 installed thru the package manager and downloading 6.10.17 from the Boinc web site.

This is what I get with 6.10.17:
App version unsupported platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
No application found for task i686-pc-linux-gnu

uname -a says 2.6.31-14-generic


With 6.4.5:
Won't connect to locahost unless I run sudo boincmgr
Downloads files then disconnects from localhost and won't reconnect.

There have been other problems but those I have solved. Never had issues before and now nothing but problems.

[D_A]

You didn't download the 64bit version of BOINC by chance? You need Ubuntu 9.10 64bit to run that.

[PoppaGeek]

it is 64 Ubuntu, double checked.

Am re-installing again, did not think that 8 cores needs more disk space for crunching than 4 cores. So giving the whole disk to Ubuntu.

Will try downloading the 32bit Linux Boinc.

At one point 6.4.5 installed thru package manager was using /usr/bin for data???? This has been a weird software day.

One problem was certificates had to download a *.crt file and replace one distributed with files.

[Someguy1982]

Strange, I just got my 16 core opty running about a week ago. Only problem I had was the certificate. Using 6.4.5 running on 64 bit ubuntu 9.1 . If I hear /see anything I'll let you know.

[s0lid]

Don't install boinc using package manager, it breaks something from ubuntu installion, i'd recommemd this:
Reinstall ubuntu and use the tar package from boincs website

[Someguy1982]

Maybe this is why I didn't experience any problems, I used Apt-get from the terminal.

[PoppaGeek]

I have tried doing it all ways and have re-installed 3 times now. 32 files will not run. 64 bit WCG says not compatible.

Going to try 8.10

Thanks for all the suggestions. Really frustrated. Stupid problems that do not seem to make sense. I have used both before on other machiens and no problems.

Google searches are not helping except for the certificate thing.

[Someguy1982]

The only other thing I've found is "make sure you're downloading the boinc-client" in addition to the manager. I assumed you did that though, sorry I can't help much.

[PoppaGeek]

apt-get got it.

thanks all

[Havis]

Hi,

To run 32bit apps (wcg_hcc1_img_6.03_i686-pc-linux-gnu for example) on 64bit linux u need to have libc6-i386 installed.

So fire up terminal
log-in as root (in ubuntu: sudo -i )
aptitude install libc6-i386
(aptitude is prefered over apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu for some time)

then you can install boinc from ubuntu repos:
aptitude install boinc-manager
You can also install schedtool (it alters process scheduling on linux)

The ca-certificates error is probably Ubuntu's fault

[PoppaGeek]

Everything is working fine now but this is useful information. Thank you.

I am thinking of installing 9.10 on 2 1354s running 8.4 so I may need to try it this way. Others may as well.

[D_A]

Hi,

To run 32bit apps (wcg_hcc1_img_6.03_i686-pc-linux-gnu for example) on 64bit linux u need to have libc6-i386 installed.

So fire up terminal
log-in as root (in ubuntu: sudo -i )
aptitude install libc6-i386
(aptitude is prefered over apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu for some time)

then you can install boinc from ubuntu repos:
aptitude install boinc-manager
You can also install schedtool (it alters process scheduling on linux)

The ca-certificates error is probably Ubuntu's fault

Very good ... except apt-get is the common and preferred method in Ubuntu, as is not logging in as root. In fact you are actively discouraged from ever logging in as root in Ubuntu.
Your command should read: sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

[Havis]

aptitude is prefered over apt-get in Debian for some time, because
it has better dependency handling when removing packages.

I'm not so sure about Ubuntu, but I've found this link:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4935/

more on package management tools can be found here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

with sudo vs root acc, it's basically the same:
with great power comes great responsibility
Personally, I preffer root, because I don't have to type "sudo"
before each command.

[D_A]

The "ubuntu way" (I don't always do this myself, either) is to use sudo before each root command as it makes it less easy for newbies to royally screw their system with only a few keystrokes. With sudo it takes an extra 5. Yeah I know, whoopty-doo. 5 keystrokes extra, all of which can be automatic after a while, but there's also no chance of forgetting that you're root and going to, say, clear your home directory with "rm * -R" (stupid thing to do anyway but ...) The last time someone went on the Ubuntu forums and told people (who were directly asking btw) how to log in as root, their posts were deleted and they got banned from the forum ... which is ridiculous, but it happened.
(I use root when I compile my kernels to save typing sudo all the time and because I use a couple of extra commands that don't "stick" if you run them with sudo ie environment variables).
Ubuntu does do some things that are ... well ... very Ubuntu. The placement of files for user software often doesn't follow linux conventions, drive naming in GRUB is ... screwy (never mind all the automatic stuff in boot.list in Ubuntu 9.10) ... there's a bunch of extra proprietary options slipped into the kernel (which lags behind the stable release) just to name a couple of things.