[Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available" notification should be disabled

[Christian Beer]

The reboot time at all shouldn't change as there is a lot going on in
parallel. Finding out what should finish before BOINC is the hard part.
But this can be fixed in the init script I think. Problem is that there
must be a fallback of some sort in case there is no GPU and we may not
want to wait on some other process that is not existing.

Regards
Christian

Am 10.03.2013 19:55, schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:
>
> This is strange, I put a delay in init script and rebooted, the reboot
> time was still the same!!!
>
> So I think there is some sort of parallelling in boot, don't know...
>
> Maybe this bug affects only ubuntu because of some delta in boot
> handling system...
>
> Bests
>
> Gianfranco
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: * Christian Beer <djangofett at gmx.net>;
> *To: * <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>;
> *Cc: * pkg-boinc-devel at lists. alioth. debian. org
> <pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>; launchpad at rodrigosilva.com
> <launchpad at rodrigosilva.com>;
> *Subject: * Re: [Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available"
> notification should be disabled
> *Sent: * Sun, Mar 10, 2013 5:36:08 PM
>
> I'm running the debian stable package and never encountered this bug
> with my GTX 265. That's strange. But I would still put a sleep into
> the init script rather than in the source (no rebuilding and
> packaging). In the source we must find something different that will
> not result in a loop or too long wait period.
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> Am 10.03.2013 18:04, schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:
>>
>> First: the debian and ubuntu packages (official) has NO delta, they
>> are bit ideantical, so there is no problem in this case.
>>
>> A different behaviour may have MY ppa's, since so much has changed
>> between .27 and .54, and in my ppas the 5 seconds delay is already there.
>>
>> So if you use debian and want to try my ppa you are free to use it
>> (if allowed by dpkg, don't know).
>>
>> Otherwise you can download from alioth pkg boinc the source tree and
>> git-buildpackage it yourself :-)
>>
>> P.s. the NVIDIA cards are affected too by this bug, but I think the 5
>> seconds delay almost fixed it for my pc.
>>
>> Bests
>>
>> Gianfranco
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From: * Christian Beer <djangofett at gmx.net>;
>> *To: * <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>;
>> *Cc: * pkg-boinc-devel at lists. alioth. debian. org
>> <pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>; launchpad at rodrigosilva.com
>> <launchpad at rodrigosilva.com>;
>> *Subject: * Re: [Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available"
>> notification should be disabled
>> *Sent: * Sun, Mar 10, 2013 1:01:41 PM
>>
>> 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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>>>
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>>
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