[Bug 1009536] Re: Ubuntu 12.04/7.0.24/ Seti at home

[Dave]

** Description changed:

  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.
+ 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".
  
- 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:
+ The package needs to be changed, perhaps to Debians SID 7.0.27, or
+ backported from Quantal if that package has been confirmed to be in good
+ working order.
  
- <core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version>
- <![CDATA[
- <message>
- process got signal 11
- </message>
- <stderr_txt>
- 
- </stderr_txt>
- ]]>
- 
- 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
- 
- 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....
+ Currently, 12.04/seti at home and lhc at home users are still unable to run
+ Boinc without using the PPA alternatives.
  
  
  -Dave
+ 
+ [Edited for clarity]

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