[Bug 933354] Re: GPU not found with ATI Hdxxxx series cards - discussion

[Christian Beer]

I'm sorry I mixed up the bugs. I meant 933354 GPU not found with ATI
Hdxxxx series cards in my post. I did some more research and think that
we may debug this with some

sleep 5
fglrxinfo >> /home/user/boinc-fglrx.log
sleep 5
fglrxinfo >> /home/user/boinc-fglrx.log

calls in /etc/init-d/boinc-client. In the end we need to know which
script needs to be started before boinc. I once read an article about
bootchart ( http://www.bootchart.org/) which may help us in finding the
culprit on an affected system.

What do you think about this?

Regards
Christian
Am 10.03.2013 14:01, schrieb Christian Beer:
> Hi,
>
> I think this bug (1140597) is really a timing issue at boot time. As
> this seems to only affect ATI/AMD hardware I think that the drivers
> for these cards either get loaded after boinc or they take too long to
> load so they are not present when boinc tries to detect GPUs.
>
> My first try to see if this is correct would be to insert a time delay
> in the boinc init script and see if this helps. If boinc can
> successfully find the GPU after the delay we need to find the script
> that is loading the driver and instruct the boinc init script to load
> after this.
>
> If MestreLion would be so kind to try this out it would be great. You
> just need to make some local changes to your init script and restart
> your machine. If this is okay for you I will send you a line to add to
> your init script.
>
> @Gianfranco: does the boinc Ubuntu package use the same init script as
> the Debian package? I only have a working Debian installation.
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> Am 10.03.2013 12:02, schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:
>>
>> Hi MestreLion, I think this is the right place to discuss to.
>>
>> Unfortunately you script has a bad behaviour for people that DON'T
>> have an usable GPU...
>>
>> I don't like to restart boinc to everybody just because the might
>> suffer from bug #1140597
>>
>> What do you think about?
>>
>> My opinion is that there should a way for giving the right order to
>> init scripts, but I don't know at the moment how to change the script
>> right now...
>>
>> Gianfranco
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From: * MestreLion <launchpad at rodrigosilva.com>;
>> *To: * <pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>;
>> *Subject: * [Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available" notification
>> should be disabled
>> *Sent: * Sun, Mar 10, 2013 12:05:22 AM
>>
>> Whatever mailing list you guys use to continue this discussion, sign me
>> in! :)
>>
>> My C++ skills are a bit rusty, but I may be able to help, if not in
>> programming, at least in discussing strategies, approaches and
>> packaging.
>>
>> Also, I've created a script (wrapper for boincmgr) as a workaround for
>> some of the annoying boinc bugs: not detecting a GPU at boot and not re-
>> starting boinc client after shutting its tasks, so maybe it will be
>> useful for you guys: https://github.com/MestreLion/scripts/blob/master
>> /boinc-manager
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1140597
>>
>> Title:
>>   "New version is available" notification should be disabled
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