Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : LHC ATLAS (native_mt) failing with "Computation error"
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Message 51593 - Posted: 22 Feb 2025, 15:06:53 UTC

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 Unity and successfully installed BOINC, lhc@home project + others, and the cvfms file system. Each project appears to be working properly yet all lhc@home ATLAS Simulation v3.01 (native_mt)x86_64-pc-linux-gnu tasks are reporting "Computation error" and "195 (0x000000C3) EXIT_CHILD_FAILED".

Examples:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=419720289
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=419695596
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=419694154

The other three projects I run, Asteroids@home, Einstein@home, and Rosetta@home, all process work units successfully to completion and validation.

    BOINC ver: 8.0.2
    OS ver: Ubuntu 22.04 Unity
    Linux kernel: 5.15.0-131-generic
    Virtualbox (6.1.40r154048) installed, CPU has hardware virtualization support and it is enabled.
    cvmfs ver: 2.12.6~1+ubuntu22.04 (cvmrepo.s3.cern.ch) Jakob Blomer <jblomer@cern.ch>

    :~$ groups boinc
    boinc : boinc video render vboxusers


User group assignments, permissions and cvmfs config have been reviewed and appear to be correct.

One lhc@home err reported consistently is:

    ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Fully qualifying the executable path name for libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 to "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0" when assigned to LD_PRELOAD does not eliminate this err.

The other notable err occurs following a cvfms/.../apptainer command:

    [2025-02-19 14:01:34] Running command: /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/containers/sw/apptainer/x86_64-el7/current/bin/apptainer exec -B /cvmfs,/var/lib/boinc/slots/7 /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/containers/fs/singularity/x86_64-centos7 sh start_atlas.sh
    [2025-02-19 14:04:46] Job failed
    


Only one Theory Simulation v300.08 (native_theory) has completed and validated successfully. Most other ATLAS Simulation v3.01 (native_mt) (once cvmfs installation complete) have failed with all reporting "Computation error" and "195 (0x000000C3) EXIT_CHILD_FAILED".

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Message 51594 - Posted: 22 Feb 2025, 15:22:22 UTC - in response to Message 51593.  

At least 1 of your logfiles report:
[2025-02-20 05:50:09] Checking for apptainer binary...
[2025-02-20 05:50:09] apptainer is not installed, using version from CVMFS

Please try a local apptainer package from your Linux vendor.

Keep in mind that ATLAS does not support suspend/resume and Theory does not support it on your system due to missing requirements (see the logs).

In addition, although it works your CVMFS configuration seems to be incomplete.
Please look through the related threads:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5594
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5595
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