pkg-boinc-devel Digest, Vol 93, Issue 11

Skip Guenter sguenter at austin.rr.com
Sun Mar 10 19:09:46 UTC 2013


This is old stuff... script changes have been provided a year ago.  
Original problem also appeared with NVid cards also.

On 03/10/2013 12:04 PM, pkg-boinc-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org 
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>     1. Re: [Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available" notification
>        should	be disabled (Christian Beer)
>     2. [Bug 933354] Re: GPU not found with ATI Hdxxxx series cards -
>        discussion (Christian Beer)
>     3. Re: [Bug 1140597] Re: "New version is available" notification
>        should	be disabled (Gianfranco Costamagna)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:01:41 +0100
> 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
> Message-ID:<513C8435.2070408 at gmx.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian
>> BOINC Maintainers, which is subscribed to boinc in Ubuntu.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1140597
>>
>> Title:
>>    "New version is available" notification should be disabled
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/1140597/+subscriptions
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:36:30 +0100
> From: Christian Beer<djangofett at gmx.net>
> To: "pkg-boinc-devel at lists. alioth. debian. org"
> 	<pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Cc: "launchpad at rodrigosilva.com"<launchpad at rodrigosilva.com>
> Subject: [Bug 933354] Re: GPU not found with ATI Hdxxxx series cards -
> 	discussion
> Message-ID:<513CB68E.2050706 at gmx.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian
>>> BOINC Maintainers, which is subscribed to boinc in Ubuntu.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1140597
>>>
>>> Title:
>>>    "New version is available" notification should be disabled
>>>
>>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/1140597/+subscriptions
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:04:30 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Gianfranco Costamagna<costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>
> To: Christian Beer<djangofett at gmx.net>
> 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
> Message-ID:
> 	<1362935070.5606.androidMobile at web133005.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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>
> 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
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S. R. 'Skip' Guenter
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