Posts by old_user11965

41) Questions and Answers : Windows : Changing of Project Name (Message 5927) Posted 6 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: 1) Close BOINC 2) Make back-up copies of all your XML files to a safe directory 3) Open all account_.xml files and edit the project name so that it is appropriate to the project URL 4) Open client_state.xml. Scroll through the file. Change your project name(s) that you corrected in the account files to match the URLs here, too. Note that the XML file contains project tags for each project. When you find an affected project, you'll see that there is app and file data that is inconsistent with that project. Delete these entries (including tags) from the file. Don't be shy (you made back-ups, right?) -- you can do it again in case you mess something up. Besides, your editor has undo. 5) Restart BOINC 6) It might* be necessary to detach an orphan project. In my first attempt, I somehow wound up with an extra LHC@home on one machine. It showed 0 results, so I just detached it. My valid LHC@home entry remains fine. Feel free to delete the invalid files from your project dirs.
42) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boince CLI version of CPDN (Message 5926) Posted 6 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Alternatively, you can continue to use the CLI client as usual and just use BoincView to monitor progress on this (and any other) system (you have).
43) Questions and Answers : Windows : completion time jumped, and progress back to 0% (Message 5804) Posted 31 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: I'd just let the WU run. You'll get trickles for the work (again) and you'll get credit when it's finished. If you reset, somebody else will just have to get the WU and start from scratch again.
44) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : VIZ (Message 5751) Posted 29 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > i tried to run in in : boinc/projects/www.climateprediction.net which look > like the right one. It is, but you need to not merely call that particular viz script, you need to actually be in that directory. I modified viz a bit: #!/usr/bin/bash cd /home/trane/boinc/projects/www.climateprediction.net/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH nice -n18 ./hadsm3viz_4.03* $1 cd -
45) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : VIZ (Message 5745) Posted 29 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: That error occurs because you aren't executing viz from within the www.climateprediction.net directory. Either cd to the directory before running viz or modify the script to do that on its own.
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Rig Behaving Badly... (Message 5665) Posted 26 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: By now, I'll assume that the CPU was, in fact, the issue. Nice work. This is an excellent example of intelligent troubleshooting.
47) Questions and Answers : Windows : Would like to turn Climate Prediction/SETI program back on? (Message 5659) Posted 26 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Attach the client to the project.
48) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Non-interactive setup (Message 5572) Posted 23 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: When you install the software on remote machines, it should be a simple matter for you to include the appropriate account*.xml files in the install directory. That attaches the projects automagically and the client should immediately begin working. My personal preference is to run a project under a normal user account as a cron job, but YMMV.
49) Message boards : Number crunching : CHP & LHC (Message 5265) Posted 12 Oct 2004 by old_user11965 Post: This sounds suspiciously like the single-slot/GUI-freeze issue. If LHC doesn't have work to provide your client, the GUI will lock up while the one slot is idle. It IS processing the CPDN work unit, so just leave it be. As soon as LHC can supply work, the GUI will free up and become responsive again. This is a known issue and hopefully newer GUI clients will offer relief from this behaviour.
50) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4780) Posted 29 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: BOINCprog 1.1.2 has been released at <a href="http://www2.gol.com/users/trane/programming/programming.html">Trane's Programming Page</a>. This is a minor maintenance release that fixes segfaults for systems running the 2.6.8+ kernels compiled with the exec-shield patch (e.g., Red Hat Fedora Core 2). trane
51) Questions and Answers : Windows : LHC-Setti-CPN (Message 4675) Posted 26 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: 1) Close BOINC 2) Make back-up copies of all your XML files to a safe directory 3) Open all account_.xml files and edit the project name so that it is appropriate to the project URL 4) Open client_state.xml. Scroll through the file. Change your project name(s) that you corrected in the account files to match the URLs here, too. Note that the XML file contains project tags for each project. When you find an affected project, you'll see that there is app and file data that is inconsistent with that project. Delete these entries (including tags) from the file. Don't be shy (you made back-ups, right?) -- you can do it again in case you mess something up. Besides, your editor has undo. 5) Restart BOINC 6) It might* be necessary to detach an orphan project. In my first attempt, I somehow wound up with an extra LHC@home on one machine. It showed 0 results, so I just detached it. My valid LHC@home entry remains fine. Feel free to delete the invalid files from your project dirs.
52) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : continue after logout (Message 4625) Posted 25 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Personally, I prefer to run my BOINC as a cron job. That way, I don't even need to log in, but the app still runs as a local user.
53) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4597) Posted 24 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: BOINCprog 1.1.1 has been released: <a href="http://www2.gol.com/users/trane/programming/programming.html">You can find it here</a>.
54) Questions and Answers : Windows : Answer to Boinc (Message 4582) Posted 24 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Understand that only the GUI is hanging. Processing is continuing as normal "under the hood". This is caused by the GUI not having work for all available slots. You can either use the GUI client and ignore the GUI freezes when it's crunching one slot only or use the CLI client, which doesn't become unresponsive. Cheers, trane
55) Questions and Answers : Windows : LHC has renamed my CP project (Message 4581) Posted 24 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: I posted this at SETI@home and LHC@home: > Argh! First one machine got nailed with this and now I've seen a second > machine fall prey to this bug. It's definitely a problem in the core client Now, that said, this is all really easy to fix. And, yes, I mean really easy. A couple of minutes with the editor of your choice and your projects will be back to normal. Here's how to fix it: 1) Close BOINC 2) Make back-up copies of all your XML files to a safe directory 3) Open all account_.xml files and edit the project name so that it is appropriate to the project URL 4) Open client_state.xml. Scroll through the file. Change your project name(s) that you corrected in the account files to match the URLs here, too. Note that the XML file contains project tags for each project. When you find an affected project, you'll see that there is app and file data that is inconsistent with that project. Delete these entries (including tags) from the file. Don't be shy (you made back-ups, right?) -- you can do it again in case you mess something up. Besides, your editor has undo. 5) Delete suspect files from incorrect project directories 6) Restart BOINC 7) It might* be necessary to detach an orphan project. In my first attempt, I somehow wound up with an extra LHC@home on one machine. It showed 0 results, so I just detached it. My valid LHC@home entry remains fine. I've fixed two machines so far and both are working fine now. LHC@home seems to be offering valid work again, so maybe the hiccoughs are short-lived. I'll check (and maybe fix) my third LHC@home-enabled machine as soon as the GUI un-freezes (it's a dual that's only got work for one slot at the moment). I hope this helps, people. Click "It answered my question" now. ;) trane
56) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4493) Posted 22 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Hi. > Maybe handling networking or multiple instances efficiently would probably be > a better way to go at first then a having panel applet. The muti-computer > handling capability would probably benefit more users. In the end, I tackled the panel app first. I'm not quite sure how I want to approach multi-system capabilities. The simple way would just be a list box on the main screen to select the mount to view. That means viewing one system at a time. I don't know if that would be suitable for you or not. > Looks like you may need to go with a config file approach to ease version > changes and adding/deleting Boinc dirs. That's what I was thinking. > I don't know anything about programming but I thought I would throw somes > ideas into the wind and see where they land. ;-) Glad that you did, too. It's food for thought. In the meantime, drop by the page and grab v1.1. It runs in the panel and names the window title after the BOINC install dir. This should make running multiple instances a bit less painful for the time being. Cheers, trane
57) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4458) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > > If you'd like an interim version that handles window naming while I fight > with > > the panel applet issue, that wouldn't be a problem. > > That would be great! Although half of my boxes are off-line for awhile and of Okay. I'll try to whip something up today and get a new archive on the web site. > the remaining, 2 are not running any boinc projects, so having an interim > version to handle window names isn't a big deal to me right now. I hope I > didn't stir up a hornet's nest for you with the panel applet request. :) Errr, well, let's just say that it's turning out to be a learning curve. :-) A thought on the 13-megs/instance: Let me think about how to handle multiple BOINCs....maybe have a file that contains all the BOINC dirs and build forms on the fly for each of 'em ... trane
58) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4445) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > I've noticed the version (1.3) on boink.dk is a different version (1.0) from > the one on your site. Which is correct? The archive on my web site is correct. I think that the BOINC Network guys are having some trouble at the moment. As soon as they're up reliably, I'll check the entry and make sure that it is as it should be. In any case, 1.0 will be replaced as soon as I can figure out this KDE Panel applet business. If you'd like an interim version that handles window naming while I fight with the panel applet issue, that wouldn't be a problem. trane
59) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4421) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > Just downloaded your app, works great on my SuSe 9.1 Pro. This is the first > BOINC add-on app that I have been able to get running. I am looking forward to > seeing new versions come out. Hey, thanks for the positive news. I'm developing on a mostly-stock Slackware 10.0 box and this is my first Kylix deployment. I was a bit nervous about releasing it to the wild. > I set up my BOINC apps on my different PCs on NFS so I can see the progress of > all from just one desktop with multiple instances running of your app. One Aha. > thing that would be nice is for your app to live on the system tray, kind of > like the "Ksetiwatch" app. Also being able to set the window name from within > the "startboincprog" file would help when more than one instance is running. It's not a problem at all for me to enable setting the window name. As for the KDE Panel, let me look into it. It comes to mind that for your use, a useful Panel tooltip would show the window name, URL, % and hours on 2 or 3 lines. Click on the Panel icon to open the existing main window. Right-click and you get a pop-up menu that offers Restore and Exit. That sound like what you had in mind? trane
60) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/Linux progress monitor available (Message 4414) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Thanks for the kind words, Ric. I certainly hadn't considered working with remote clients. It's an interesting idea. Cheers, trane

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