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From: Khumba <bog@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's happened to BOINC recently?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:17:13
Message-Id: 20131214091701.710d2f2f@khumba.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's happened to BOINC recently? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:56:13 +0000
2 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > Hi list,
5 >
6 > Recently I've been finding that BOINC has just stopped. It doesn't show up in
7 > ps -ax and I can't see anything helpful in its logs. Every time I query its
8 > status I get this, which is new:
9 >
10 > $ /etc/init.d/boinc status
11 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/tasks: Permission denied
12 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/tasks: Permission denied
13 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/tasks: Permission denied
14 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/tasks: Permission denied
15 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc/tasks: Permission denied
16 > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/sys/fs/cgroup/openrc/boinc’: Permission denied
17 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/tasks: Permission denied
18 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/tasks: Permission denied
19 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/tasks: Permission denied
20 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/tasks: Permission denied
21 > /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc/tasks: Permission denied
22 > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/sys/fs/cgroup/openrc/boinc’: Permission denied
23 > * status: started
24
25 FYI I got these errors simply when I queried the status of a service
26 as a normal user, rather than root, but the final status line was
27 still correct IIRC (on systemd now though, can't verify). Was on
28 hardened at the time, if that matters.
29
30 - Khumba
31
32 > I installed BOINC from the ebuild, not by getting it from berkeley.edu. The
33 > only changes I've made are to install its data directory under my home
34 > directory (/home/prh/boinc), added myself to the boinc group and chown'd
35 > everything to prh:prh.
36 >
37 > I had tried keeping the default user, group and directory but I found it
38 > easier to do it this way.
39 >
40 > Can anyone shed any light on this?
41 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's happened to BOINC recently? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>