[Bug 1009536] [NEW] Ubuntu 12.04/7.0.24/ Seti at home

[Guo Yixuan]

Hi,

On 06/06/2012 10:30 PM, Dave wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> We already had a bug opened for this issue. But it was marked as
> "fix released" (I don't know why as no change ever happened to the
> repository package)
> 
> The Boinc package (7.0.24....precise1) in the 12.04 Ubuntu repository
> doesn't work for seti at home, it just produces "computation errors". We
> know this issue and the ones still existing are specific to
> Debian/Ubuntu packages, manual installs of Boinc from Berkeley's
> website (7.0.25 AND 7.0.28) do not have ANY of these issues.
> 
> Locutus' "Boinc development" PPA offers a fix for the instant 
> computation error bug. However there are still many people having
> issues running seti at home, even with the PPA package (which is based
> on Steffen's GIT). Mainly errors like this:
> 
> <core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ 
> <message> process got signal 11 </message> <stderr_txt>
> 
> </stderr_txt> ]]>

Steffen and I had discussed this with SETI at Home upstream, then forwarded
to boinc_dev[1]. We only observed this bug with boinc 7.0.28, not in
earlier versions, so we guess the bug is in boinc.
(7.0.28 has not yet entered Ubuntu archive, as a search on
packages.ubuntu.com turns out.)

[1] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2012-June/018584.html

> 
> OR
> 
> <core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ 
> <message> process exited with code 127 (0x7f, -129) </message> 
> <stderr_txt> 
> ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_enhanced: error
> while loading shared libraries: libboinc_api.so.6: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> </stderr_txt> ]]>
> 
> OR
> 
> error while loading shared libraries: libboinc_api.so.6: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory

I think these two will be fixed by recompiling boinc-app-seti against
newer boinc-dev (>=7).

> 
> User comment:" I have in /usr/lib libboinc_api.so, libboinc_api.so.7
> and libboinc_api.7.0.27 the former two are links to the latter."
> 
> 
> So currently, many casual seti at home users are still unable to run
> Boinc. Both with the standard package (of course, as it's still the
> "broken" package), AND with the current development package in
> Locutus' PPA.
> 
> As I cannot recreate these issues other users are having I haven't
> been able to help figure anything out.
> 
> I only hope that someone with some Linux skills will figure out what
> the issue(s) are and report something usable to me, or here to you
> guys.
> 
> Because right now, seti at home with Boinc is a no-go for a lot of
> casual Ubuntu users. I have given up on trying to point them to the
> PPA, as I still get too many coming back complaining of errors, and
> complaining about Ubuntu having these errors. I now just tell them to
> download the package directly from Boinc, because it doesn't have
> these issues....
> 
> 
> -Dave
> 
> ** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed
> 

Cheers,

Guo Yixuan