Thread 'Feedback on the Theory docker app'

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Saturn911 Send message Joined: 3 Nov 12 Posts: 95 Credit: 188,757,915 RAC: 97,334	Message 52967 - Posted: 3 Feb 2026, 19:25:13 UTC - in response to Message 52956. In reply to Laurence's message of 2 Feb 2026: CVMFS_REPOSITORIES="atlas,atlas-condb,grid,cernvm-prod,sft,alice" Maybe you are missing cernvm-prod The nut to crack was the missing mount of cvmfs-config.cern.ch to CVMFS. Unfortunately no one has point out that this is necessary now. Because of my system I have to register all the mounts manually to the automounter. For now I have done my first Theory-docker wu. Thank you Laurence ID: 52967 · Reply Quote

baracutio Send message Joined: 17 Aug 05 Posts: 12 Credit: 185,382 RAC: 284	Message 52968 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 10:31:29 UTC Docker container runs fine over here, but at the end all tasks fail: Wed 04 Feb 2026 11:23:34 AM CET \| LHC@home \| [error] Can't rename output file slots/3/shared/output.tgz to projects/lhcathome.cern.ch_lhcathome/Theory_2922-4838179-486_0_r1805586945_result: rename() failed Wed 04 Feb 2026 11:23:34 AM CET \| LHC@home \| Computation for task Theory_2922-4838179-486_0 finished Wed 04 Feb 2026 11:23:34 AM CET \| LHC@home \| Output file Theory_2922-4838179-486_0_r1805586945_result for task Theory_2922-4838179-486_0 absent Is it an issue on my side? ID: 52968 · Reply Quote

Toggleton Send message Joined: 4 Mar 17 Posts: 41 Credit: 12,643,960 RAC: 4,711	Message 52969 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 11:19:58 UTC - in response to Message 52968. Last modified: 4 Feb 2026, 11:20:45 UTC Did likely have the same problem with Docker on Arch linux(final steps fail and on the LHC website no Stderr output) https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=6438&postid=52901 Not sure why docker did not work but Podman with linger enabled works fine with multiple tasks finished successfully. ID: 52969 · Reply Quote

Saturn911 Send message Joined: 3 Nov 12 Posts: 95 Credit: 188,757,915 RAC: 97,334	Message 52972 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 16:29:49 UTC Theory-docker tasks run fine now. But run-time and cpu-time are far from realistic! ID: 52972 · Reply Quote

Saturn911 Send message Joined: 3 Nov 12 Posts: 95 Credit: 188,757,915 RAC: 97,334	Message 52973 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 16:36:59 UTC - in response to Message 52969. Podman runs ok, On my side not with lingering but containers switched to cgroupfs cgroup_manager = "cgroupfs" ID: 52973 · Reply Quote

Crystal Pellet Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 10 Posts: 1530 Credit: 10,029,744 RAC: 1,520	Message 52974 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 16:54:37 UTC - in response to Message 52972. In reply to Saturn911's message of 4 Feb 2026: Theory-docker tasks run fine now. But run-time and cpu-time are far from realistic! The run-time is realistic. Don't look at BOINC Manager's "Remaining (estimated)" time. That was and will always be way off, because Theory tasks have a wide variaty of runtimes. Cpu-time: For a lot of systems that time is multiplied with the number of host cores. That bug is fixed in the next version of docker_wrapper. ID: 52974 · Reply Quote

Toby Broom Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 27 Sep 08 Posts: 910 Credit: 777,426,078 RAC: 180,285	Message 52975 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 17:11:02 UTC - in response to Message 52973. Last modified: 4 Feb 2026, 17:12:05 UTC I posted to the BOINC forum if its even possibale to use systemd. I have not found a way to make it work. I don't need linger with cgroupfs, systemd & linger does not work for me. ID: 52975 · Reply Quote

Saturn911 Send message Joined: 3 Nov 12 Posts: 95 Credit: 188,757,915 RAC: 97,334	Message 52976 - Posted: 4 Feb 2026, 20:05:25 UTC - in response to Message 52975. In reply to Toby Broom's message of 4 Feb 2026: systemd & linger does not work for me. +1 ID: 52976 · Reply Quote