[Bug 379568] Re: Synaptic won't start, report Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError

2011-02-21 Thread Skip Guenter
Fixed it for me!!! :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379568 Title: Synaptic won't start, report Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 629740] Re: BAM: inconsistant signing key with manual sync (only on 10.04 system, also with backported package)

2010-12-19 Thread Skip Guenter
More details in this thread. Looks like it's a corrupted .xml file being sent from BOINC. http://boincstats.com/forum/forum_thread.php?id=5198 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629740

[Bug 655139] Re: Boinc GPU tasks all end with Computation Error after update to NVidia 260.19.06 proprietary drivers

2010-12-19 Thread Skip Guenter
I've got Collatz GPUGrid running on a machine that has a GTX-275 and a GTS-250 in it with Nvidia driver 260.19.21. I don't have Prime Grid working (they error out in 9 ~ 49 seconds). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 655139] Re: Boinc GPU tasks all end with Computation Error after update to NVidia 260.19.06 proprietary drivers

2010-12-19 Thread Skip Guenter
oh yea... v10.04LTS, x64, Boinc from PPA v6.10.58 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655139 Title: Boinc GPU tasks all end with Computation Error after update to NVidia 260.19.06

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-12-19 Thread Skip Guenter
I thought this was working this morning as after creating /etc/gdm/custom.conf and rebooting (but not logging on) I was able to go to another machine and remote gui in and saw GPU WUs running! Applied the change to my other ATI machines (v9.10 V10.10 but all running v6.10.58 boinc). All seemed

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread Skip Guenter
I ran across an issue after changing boint to run as my primary user and connecting to the ATI card. I don't recall this behavior when I had it running as root but will have to retest that to be sure. IF you logout the GPU WU running will finish but all subsequent WUs will get repeated errors

[Bug 629740] [NEW] BAM inconsistant signing key

2010-09-03 Thread Skip Guenter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: boinc Selected Sync with BAM Account Manager from GUI Tools menu: Fri 03 Sep 2010 11:18:24 AM CDT Fetching configuration file from http://bam.boincstats.com/get_project_config.php Fri 03 Sep 2010 11:18:28 AM CDT Contacting account

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread Skip Guenter
Since I'm using the 'sleep' for my' boinc after gdm delay' I just added the xhost + in front of that to get: start() { log_begin_msg Starting $DESC: $NAME if is_running; then log_progress_msg already running else xhost + sleep 5 /home/skip/setfan.sh start-stop-daemon

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-02 Thread Skip Guenter
A guy (gfarmerfr) on the DNETC project forums told me The user launching boinc must have a Xorg session running. We were discussing getting the ATI cards to work on that project. He took another route (that I like better that what I did) in that he changed ownership of the /var/lib/boinc-client

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-02 Thread Skip Guenter
My understanding is that upstream doesn't want to force xserver as a pre-req for running BOINC. OK, then we need something in the install to ask if it's going to run on a server w/o a GUI (leave as is) or in a normal desktop environment with gdm running (set the boinc user to be the installing

[Bug 414244] Re: BOINC should run later than gdm

2010-09-02 Thread Skip Guenter
Another approach: sudo update-rc.d -f boinc-client remove sudo update-rc.d boinc-client defaults 99 I got this from gfarmerfr an ATI/Ubuntu user on the DNETC forums but haven't actually tried it. It worked for gfarmerfr. -- BOINC should run later than gdm

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-30 Thread Skip Guenter
Brian, I booted up the Inspiron 1100 and got the usual v10.04 black screen. I then did Ctrl-Alt-F1 and: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brian-rogers/intel-shadow I then created the /etc/X11/xorg.conf via nano with only: Section Device Identifier GPU

[Bug 622161] [NEW] apt-cacher-cleanup.pl loops when .conf has user=root

2010-08-22 Thread Skip Guenter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt-cacher Was finding that apt-cacher-cleanup.pl had been running (I think, based on time in top) for days, maybe weeks. Found the pid and killed it. Got back onto that server tonight and found it running again (and again I think for days). Did went

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-22 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, I got it working with the Debian package (actually used the PPA v5.10.58 x64)... This is ugly but if nothing else it's another confirmation that we've got a boinc user permissions problem with the ATI driver. In /etc/default/boinc-client I set the user to root in: # The BOINC core client

[Bug 475093] Re: screen content is not updated

2010-08-19 Thread Skip Guenter
Also confirmed the problem is bypassed with desktop effects on remote machine turned off, don't need them on my remote machines so this is no longer an issue for me. -- screen content is not updated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475093 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-19 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, I'm using the drivers off of the AMD/ATI sight with same results so it's good to know it's across both driver installs. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-15 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, another day and no major progress on finding what the issue is but for sure: 1) The general problem of boinc getting started to soon can be confirmed by doing the terminal command sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart. IF the GPU is then found apply the sleep 5 to the startup script that I've

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
I just did a fresh install of v10.04 and driver .run package from ATI running the PPA BOINC v6.10.58 (all x64 stuff) and BOINC reports no usable GPUs found (HD5830). Dang... guess I'll go try the berkeley binaries but I'm thinking it's a driver issue. -- No GPU found

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
moved the Berkeley v6.10.56 binaries to /usr/bin/ and no diff. @northa, what driver r u using from where? -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 475093] Re: screen content is not updated

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
Yup controlling a freshly installed remote v10.04 x64 machine gets one screen then no updates/control until I go turn of effects on the remote machine (ATI fglrx from ATI, HD5830). Local machine's (v9.10 x64) Compiz and Nvidia prop drivers on local desktop seem to make no difference. -- screen

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
I think this thread is suggesting that it's a permissions problem for boinc?? Any thoughts on that? http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=5936 -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
WOW! Guys I just downloaded the Berkeley package and ran it's script which installs into /home/skip/BOINC (skip being my user account). from the default home/skip prompt I typed BOINC/run_client and then BOINC/run_manager and it started each up in a terminal. In the run_client window I saw that

[Bug 328477] Re: boinc manager password is empty by default

2010-08-02 Thread Skip Guenter
As I recall, many moons ago it had a random gen'd password and it the end users complained about it until it was removed. Been here, did this. -- boinc manager password is empty by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 585547] Re: boinc-client bad signature for URL

2010-08-01 Thread Skip Guenter
@ comment #8 (mine) -- boinc-client bad signature for URL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585547 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 585547] Re: boinc-client bad signature for URL

2010-08-01 Thread Skip Guenter
@ comment #8 (mine) Update: I saw no change in behavior with the Berkeley v6.10.56 BUT I failed to detach/re-attach from BAM :-( Upon re-installing v6.10.58 from the PPA AND detaching/re-attaching from/to BAM the error went away again. -- boinc-client bad signature for URL

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-01 Thread Skip Guenter
Manual restart must have left something running. Sure sounds like just need to sudo gedit /etc/init.d/boinc-client and add the sleep 5 command as shown below: . start() { sleep 5 log_begin_msg Starting $DESC: $NAME if is_running; then . PS: Use sleep 9 if

[Bug 585547] Re: boinc-client bad signature for URL

2010-07-31 Thread Skip Guenter
Upgraded to v6.10.58 (via PPA http://ppa.launchpad.net/pkg- boinc/ppa/ubuntu lucid main) on my v10.04 Xubuntu machine and the problem seems to have returned. However I have v6.10.58 from the PPA installed on other versions of Ubuntu and don't have the issue. Am I thinking this correctly that

[Bug 128357] Re: boinc does not idle with mouse movement

2010-07-31 Thread Skip Guenter
@ comment #18 Under Linux (at least for CPU apps, don't know about GPU) your BOINC tasks take a lower niced priority and so will give up their CPU slices to other things (you on the computer) by nature of how the thread scheduling works... Unless you've set SCHEDULE=0 (manually, it comes turned

[Bug 612190] [NEW] Benchmark Results not displayed in boincmgr

2010-07-31 Thread Skip Guenter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: boinc Priority Low(est). s...@crunch35:~$ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 9.10 Release:9.10 s...@crunch35:~$ uname -a Linux crunch35 2.6.31-22-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 27 02:41:03 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux s...@crunch35:~$

[Bug 414244] Re: BOINC should run later than gdm

2010-07-18 Thread Skip Guenter
Sleep command in the start() function works fine. Only need a sleep value of around 5 though. start() { sleep 5 log_begin_msg Starting $DESC: $NAME if is_running; then -- BOINC should run later than gdm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414244 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 585547] Re: boinc-client bad signature for URL

2010-06-15 Thread Skip Guenter
Same problem after upgrade of Xubuntu from v8.04LTS to V10.04LTS (64b). Moved v6.10.56 binaries to /usr/bin and resolved. -- boinc-client bad signature for URL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585547 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 301990] Re: boinc-client starts before nvidia kernel module is loaded and failed to detect CUDA devices

2009-07-22 Thread Skip Guenter
getdeb provides BOINC v6.4.5 which works with CUDA once restarted to pick up the nvidia driver. I assume the driver is attached either with S20dkms-autoinstaller from this entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Module Loadglx EndSection Why was this marked as Invalid? What Sxx level

[Bug 199245] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crash opening any window: BadWindow X error under Xvnc

2008-05-12 Thread Skip Guenter
[quote]By the way, where I mean VNC performance is Xvnc, not x11vnc. They are 2 different programs. The performance of Xvnc is fine in Feisty or Gutsy, but not in Hardy. The performance of x11vnc won't be as good as Xvnc in theory, since it's started for the existing DISPLAY and need to track the