LHC@home

16 work units lost when the Boinc software detached itself from the project without
prompting.

Does anyone have a listing of commands
for the Linux Boinc software?

./boinc --help gets me nowhere.

Do you have any logs of the event? I have never seen it do this on either of my linux boxes so I can't really guess at what went wrong? However, the --help switch does display a full list of other available commandline switches. What exactly do you mean by 'gets me nowhere'?


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gets me nowhere as in type

./boinc --help

at the console prompt in the folder where the
downloaded boinc .gz file unpacked the program

and no information gets returned.

path is

/tmp/XandrosFM

Typing dir at the console prompt shows me a number
of .xml files associated with the LHC project, but
none of them is a Boinc file.

cd to the /projects folder

dir produces lhcathome.cern.ch, which is an empty folder

Sixtrack was running, which means that Boinc is present
on the system. But where?

Searching for Boinc using find program or folder also
comes up with no results.

I can start Boinc running by unpacking the .gz file
but by no other method.

I'm confused.

dbernat
The executable is not called boinc.
cd to the directory where you unarchived the gz file to.
Type ls
you will see the executable with a name like this:
boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu

Obviously the above example is ver 4.09.

To run this you have to enter the full name:
./boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu
to get the help file:
./boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu --help.

Tip
You dont have to type all of the name:
type ./boinc and hit the tab key, it autocompletes for you.

Click twice on the .gz file on the desktop

Click twice on the gnu program in the .gz file

copying to /tmp/XandrosFM

and the Boinc program starts running in the /tmp/XandrosFM
path

start console

/tmp/XandrosFM

ls

returns the folder *project*, six .xml files, one .html
file, and lockfile.

No Boinc program is listed under that name.

The only running Boinc program is the program within the
.gz file on the desktop.

What step(s) do I need to take that I have not taken?

You're running the application directly from the archiver. You need to properly install this, so stop clickity-clicking. ;-)

Open a console and from your home directory, create a boinc installation directory. I call mine 'boinc'. Move the .gz file from your desktop into this new boinc directory. In your console, cd to the boinc directory and unpack it, e.g., 'gunzip boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz'. This will leave you with an executable. Make sure it's got the proper rights: 'chmod 744 boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Now, use locate or find to determine where all your account*.xml files are located and moved them into your new boinc directory.

With all that done, you should just be able to start the BOINC client with './boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and see it begin working. Feel free to set up running the client as a cron job.

Trane Francks wrote:

Open a console and from your home directory, create a boinc installation directory. I call mine 'boinc'. Move the .gz file from your desktop into this new boinc directory. In your console, cd to the boinc directory and unpack it, e.g., 'gunzip boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz'. This will leave you with an executable. Make sure it's got the proper rights: 'chmod 744 boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Now, use locate or find to determine where all your account*.xml files are located and moved them into your new boinc directory.
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Got it at long last. Thanks, Trane.

Been a long time since we met. You still in Tokyo?

Yikes. I just stumbled onto this months after the fact. Yeah, mate, I'm still in Tokyo. Been 13 years now. Isn't that scary!