BOINC on ARM

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,

>Unfortunately I'm neither developer nor geek, thus I need more

>detailed instructions :-( I don't know where to find bionic (Github?!?

sorry!
Ubuntu Bionic is the currently development version of Ubuntu, it will be called
18.04LTS once it is out (april).

>later I found https://github.com/BOINC/boinc but for moment being I'm
>unable to make sense from it) or your ppa :-( Could you please give me
>URL of your ppa?


https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/boinc

this is the ppa I'm talking about.


unfortunately the build will take hours/days because of spectre/meltdown kernel patches
being deployed right now on ubuntu builders
https://mobile.twitter.com/launchpadstatus
(amd64 and i386 are currently back, but armhf/arm64 will take some more time to update
and catch up with the building queue)

G.


On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna
<locutusofborg at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>sorry troubling you; I found this address in /etc/init.d/boinc-client.
>
>
> ack
>>I installed Ubuntu Xenial in container and BOINC there. SFSG.
>>Because I encountered repeated errors "Authorization failure: -155"
>>issuing many boinccmd commands, I removed BOINC installation from the
>>container and reinstalled it. But this error persisted even after
>>purging and reinstalling BOINC.
>>In next attempt (after purging BOINC from container and even removing
>>/var/lib/boinc-client directory, doing apt-get autoremove, apt-get
>>autoclean and reinstalling BOINC in Ubuntu container) first boinccmd
>>was OK:
>>boinccmd --lookup_account https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ `mail` `password`
>>
>>but next commands ended again with the same error:
>>boinccmd --project_attach https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ `account`
>>Authorization failure: -155
>>boinccmd --get_state
>>Authorization failure: -155
>>
>>Moreover, in /var/log/boincerr.log there are, after 1st line:
>>
>>dir_open: Could not open directory ‘slots’ from ‘/var/lib/boinc-client’.
>>repeated (ad libitum) following lines:
>>dir_open: Could not open directory ‘/dev/input’ from ‘/var/lib/boinc-client’.
>>dir_open: Could not open directory ‘/dev/input/mice’ from
>>‘/var/lib/boinc-client’.
>>
>>Could anybody please advice?
>
> lease try boinc from bionic (18.04 devel), or from my ppa:
> I'm uploading 7.8.4 in some minutes
>
> also, please provide output of
> systemctl status boinc-client
>
> G.