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<B>WARNING:</B> The following contains some OPINIONS.<BR>
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Mike,<BR>
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I am fairly certain I'd posted the <BR>
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<I>cd /etc/rc2.d</I><BR>
<I>sudo mv -v S20boinc-client S32boinc-client</I><BR>
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issue here a couple months ago but at the time there were concerns about bringing GPU support into the mainstream Debian/Ubuntu boinc support due to the proprietary drivers / libs involved.<BR>
I don't know where that stands today. <BR>
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However this change of S20 to S32 does seem to resolve the startup problem in Ubuntu/Xubuntu about <I>96% of the time</I>. Occasionally, for reasons unknown, boinc-client still gets started before the xorg.conf has finished processing/glx fully loaded and you'll get the "<I>GPU missing</I>" status on the WU. A restart will resolve <BR>
<B>or </B><BR>
inserting a "sleep 2" into the start() function will also resolve. I'm sure there's a better way but not one my limited knowledge of Linux/Ubuntu/Bash/RunLevels can conjure up today. I'd really like some feedback from this list on a better way to delay the client starting just a wee bit longer than just the S20 to S32 change. Maybe something to test if the glx module is loaded and awake? Or another runlevel?<BR>
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Example of inserted "sleep" along with a nvclock command (this particular card requires forcing auto fan control on to not overheat) inserted into /etc/init.d/boinc-client:<BR>
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start()<BR>
{<BR>
log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"<BR>
if is_running; then<BR>
log_progress_msg "already running"<BR>
else<BR>
<B> nvclock -F auto -f</B><BR>
<B> sleep 1</B><BR>
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile $PIDFILE \<BR>
--make-pidfile --user $BOINC_USER --chuid $BOINC_USER \<BR>
--chdir $BOINC_DIR --exec $BOINC_CLIENT -- $BOINC_OPTS<BR>
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Also the user "boinc" in video group thing does not seem to occur in my Ubuntu (& Xubuntu) environments. I suspect this to be something with the Berkeley install.<BR>
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My 'method' of upgrading has been to install from the Deb/Ubuntu repositories when adding a vid card to a machine (<B>both the 18x.xx driver and boinc</B>) and then:<BR>
1) Run the Nvidia script from /home/<I>user </I> (telling it to NOT update xorg.conf if it's an upgrade of driver) with <I>sudo sh NVIDIA</I>[TAB]<BR>
2) Run the Berkely scripts from /home/<I>user</I> which will create /home/<I>user</I>/BOINC (<I>sudo sh boinc_</I>[TAB])<BR>
3) cd to the /home/<I>user</I>/BOINC directory and sudo mv -v boinc /usr/bin/ (repeat for boincmgr and boinccmd)<BR>
4) Move libcudart if first time or only if it actually changed from prior driver version (not so often)<BR>
5) Make sure /usr/bin/boinc* are owned by root and executable. Adjust as needed with chown root: and chmod a+x<BR>
6) Clean-up from /home/<I>user</I> with <I>sudo rm -Rv BOINC</I> and <I>sudo rm -v boinc_</I>[TAB]<BR>
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This will get ya the latest greatest nvidia drivers (190.42) + whatever version of boinc ya want (6.10.17 right now) and still allow usage of all the (much preferred by me) Debian/Ubuntu scripts and naming.<BR>
Retains full functionality of /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart|status|stop|start unlike the Berkeley scripts.<BR>
Does not require any mucking about with "boinc" in the video group.<BR>
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Skip<BR>
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On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:05 +0000, pkg-boinc-devel-request@lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:<BR>
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:43:27 +0200
From: Mika Rastas <<A HREF="mailto:mika.rastas@gmail.com">mika.rastas@gmail.com</A>>
Subject: Bug#557871: [boinc-client] Isn't able to use suitable Nvidia
GPU for calculations
To: <A HREF="mailto:submit@bugs.debian.org">submit@bugs.debian.org</A>
Message-ID: <<A HREF="mailto:1259099007.10177.16.camel@BirdFarm.Kotiverkko">1259099007.10177.16.camel@BirdFarm.Kotiverkko</A>>
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Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.10.17+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
--- Please enter the report below this line. ---
I started working on using the GPU for boinc projects and found out that
it didn't work. After some searching I found out that it is because the
client is getting loaded too early. Client only checks for suitable GPUs
when it starts. Then I tried to restart it and found out that the user
boinc needs to be in group video atleast for nvidia cuda to work.
This thread speaks of the same problem.
<A HREF="http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1384&nowrap=true#12852">http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1384&nowrap=true#12852</A>
Now it crunches numbers just nicely as I've changed the startup scripts
links to S32boinc-client ordering them later than the nvidia driver.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
500 unstable http.us.debian.org
500 unstable <A HREF="ftp://ftp.sunet.se">ftp.sunet.se</A>
500 unstable <A HREF="ftp://ftp.funet.fi">ftp.funet.fi</A>
500 unstable <A HREF="ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org">ftp.fi.debian.org</A>
500 testing http.us.debian.org
500 testing <A HREF="ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org">ftp.fi.debian.org</A>
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=================================-+-==============
libc6 (>= 2.2.5) | 2.10.2-1
libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2-1) | 7.19.7-1
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.4.2-3
libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5) | 0.9.8k-6
libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) | 4.4.2-3
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15
debconf (>= 0.5) | 1.5.28
OR debconf-2.0 |
python (>= 2.3) | 2.5.4-2
adduser | 3.111
lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) | 3.2-23
ca-certificates | 20090814
Recommends (Version) | Installed
=========================-+-===========
schedtool | 1.3.0-1
Suggests (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-===========
boinc-app-seti |
boinc-manager | 6.10.17+dfsg-1
OR kboincspy |
--- Output from package bug script ---
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# 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=""
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