[Bug 1407452] Re: [AMD A4-5300] boinc fails to detect GPU

[Ken Sharp]

Over ssh -X:

$ sudo apt install --reinstall boinc-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 2,023 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/costamagnagianfranco/boinc/ubuntu/ trusty/main boinc-client amd64 7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2 [2,023 kB]
Fetched 2,023 kB in 1s (1,613 kB/s)    
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 353279 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../boinc-client_7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2_amd64.deb ...
 * Stopping BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                            ... waiting                                                                                                                                            [ OK ]
Unpacking boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
usermod: group 'input' does not exist
Could not assign boinc user to group 'input'.
 * Starting BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                           localuser:boinc being added to access control list
xhost:  must be on local machine to add or remove hosts.
                                                                                                                                                        [ OK ]
 * Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children:                                                                                                   chrt: failed to set pid 19937's policy: No such process
chrt: failed to set pid 19937's policy: No such process
chrt: failed to set pid 19937's policy: No such process
Could not adjust oom_score of task

After setting DISPLAY=:0 (the active X server):

$ sudo apt install --reinstall boinc-client
[sudo] password for ken: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/2,023 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 353279 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../boinc-client_7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2_amd64.deb ...
 * Stopping BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                            ... waiting                                                                                                                                            [ OK ]
Unpacking boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
usermod: group 'input' does not exist
Could not assign boinc user to group 'input'.
 * Starting BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                           No protocol specified
xhost:  unable to open display ":0"
xhost error ignored, GPU computing may not be possible                                                                                                  [ OK ]
 * Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children:                                                                                            [ OK ]

After unsetting $DISPLAY:

$ sudo apt install --reinstall boinc-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/2,023 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 353279 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../boinc-client_7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2_amd64.deb ...
 * Stopping BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                            ... waiting                                                                                                                                            [ OK ]
Unpacking boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2) ...
usermod: group 'input' does not exist
Could not assign boinc user to group 'input'.
 * Starting BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                                                    [ OK ] 
 * Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children:                                                                                            [ OK ]

Either way:

[---] No usable GPUs found

I'm sure there's other tests but I'm not at that machine at the moment.
I'll try later.

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