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On Wednesday 27 Apr 2016 10:03:58 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 26 Apr 2016 19:54:09 Gregory Woodbury wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> > |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > Has anyone here succeeded in getting this BOINC project to run? No |
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> > > matter |
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> > > what I try, I get "task postponed 86400.000000 sec: Communication with |
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> > > VM |
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> > > Hypervisor failed." |
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> > |
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> > Is the "user" boinc runs as in the vboxusers" group? |
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> > By default, boinc runs as a non-root (daemon?) user and if its group is |
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> > not in the vboxusers group, |
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> > VirtualBox will not start or run for the user. |
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> > |
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> > The recommended workaround is to run boinc as a real user (generally |
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> > "you") so that things operate properly. Additionally, the actual way |
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> > that the cernvm runs can change "just a bit" and it will upset the |
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> > balance of getting VBox to run boinc tasks. |
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> |
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> Thanks for the reply. Yes, boinc is running as me, as shown below, and I |
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> am in the vboxusers group. Boinc is also in that group. All the files and |
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> directories under ~/boinc and ~/.VirtualBox are owned prh:prh. But I've |
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> just noticed that the files under ~/.VirtualBox are all 0600; I wonder if |
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> that's thet problem: that the boinc user can't read them. But then boinc |
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> is running as me, the owner of all the files involved. |
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> |
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> I'm going round in circles again. |
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> |
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> $ ps U prh |
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> 710 ? SNsl 4:10 /usr/bin/boinc_client --daemon --dir |
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> /home/prh/boinc --redirectio 880 ? Sl 22:23 /usr/bin/boincmgr |
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> [...] |
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> 19613 ? RN 372:47 |
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> ../../projects/www.cosmologyathome.org/camb_2.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu |
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> params.ini [...] |
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> 24897 ? SNl 0:08 |
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> ../../projects/pogs.theskynet.org_pogs/wrapper_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_4.02 |
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> [...] |
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> 28001 ? RN 7:17 ./fit_sed 10 filters.dat observations.dat |
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> [...] |
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The fix has already been done, silently - no outward evidence other than the |
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dates on a couple of files. I only found out when I compared a new |
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installation with what I'd backed up a few hours earlier. |
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The problem was that /etc/init.d/boinc was starting the client with an su |
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command, but now a start-stop-daemon call has been substituted. Job done. I |
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can now move on to the next problem. :) |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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