[Bug 991179] Re: 7.0.24 "computation error" bug

Thomas Ward teward at trekweb.org
Sun May 13 20:45:54 UTC 2012


That was the confusion, because Locutus referred to a different patch.


On May 13, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Dave <xclusive585 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just for clarification. I believe that patch Thomas refers to was believed
> to be causing issues building the package for Ubuntu.
> The patch found to cause the computation error was
> moreinformativeappstart.patch or something like that.
> On May 13, 2012 3:25 PM, "Thomas Ward" <teward at trekweb.org> wrote:
> 
>> Steffen, the patch reported to have the problem, the
>> 'parse_issues.patch' exists in the Quantal package, and the Debian
>> package (I dissected the package myself, its still there).
>> 
>> Backporting to older than Precise may be a tiny bit difficult, but
>> before I help out wiht the backports to Oneiric and earlier, it has to
>> be backported to Precise.
>> 
>> I'm working on the paperwork now, but i have to finish fixing my dev
>> environment.  Once I fix my development environment, i'll test a no-
>> changes backport to Precise, and then from there work my way onto
>> Oneiric.  Natty is going out when Quantal gets released, so I will look
>> into backporting to that, but the backport priority order on that for me
>> is as follows:
>> 
>> 1) Precise
>> 2) Oneiric
>> 3) Natty
>> 4) Lucid
>> 
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>> Title:
>> 7.0.24 "computation error" bug
>> 
>> Status in “boinc” package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> 
>> Bug description:
>> Hi. Repository versions 7.0.24, (I assume 7.0.25) and 7.0.26 have a
>> known bug which affects users with various hardware running Ubuntu
>> 12.04. The bug makes the boinc software unable to process any work-
>> units.
>> 
>> This is a known bug by a growing group of S at H Boinc users running
>> Ubuntu 12.04 and other Debain variants.
>> 
>> As soon as there is a version out which overcomes this bug, the
>> repository package may want to be changed.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> [edit] it seems this bug is only caused by the repository installs of
>> Boinc. When one installs Boinc from the Berkeley website the issue does not
>> exist.
>> Also, the bug only seems to exist for seti at home users, apparently all
>> other projects are unaffected? (I'm now curious it may affect "Quake
>> Catcher Network")
>> 
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> Title:
>  7.0.24 "computation error" bug
> 
> Status in “boinc” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> 
> Bug description:
>  Hi. Repository versions 7.0.24, (I assume 7.0.25) and 7.0.26 have a
>  known bug which affects users with various hardware running Ubuntu
>  12.04. The bug makes the boinc software unable to process any work-
>  units.
> 
>  This is a known bug by a growing group of S at H Boinc users running
>  Ubuntu 12.04 and other Debain variants.
> 
>  As soon as there is a version out which overcomes this bug, the
>  repository package may want to be changed.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>  [edit] it seems this bug is only caused by the repository installs of Boinc. When one installs Boinc from the Berkeley website the issue does not exist.
>  Also, the bug only seems to exist for seti at home users, apparently all other projects are unaffected? (I'm now curious it may affect "Quake Catcher Network")
> 
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