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Pilgrim57

Pilgrim57

Pilgrim57

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Well I decided to upgrade to GG but it stalled saying not enough disk space - 126 MB short. While try to make space I deleted the HDD in VMware:eek:
Burned GG to CD to reinstall VM but got to desktop & both HDD & DVDrom busy & couldn't get Firefox to open or install OS despite several attempts:(
While searching for Sirius' guide I noticed that you can set VMware to read from the ISO in place of CD & this solved the problem.
Following the guide - v helpful - but why no sticky to it in the forum or don't I know where to look? - I had 2 problems:
couldn't get http link to FAH6 to work so had to download in Firefox & use Archive Manager, same with FahMon:confused:
I forgot to step to install libwxgtk2.6-dev & g++
Thanks to Uncle Fungus I found the help on the FahMon site that I needed libwxgtk2.8-devand after ./confiure and make it should be sudo make install:) & that got FahMon finally working.

FAH downloaded core a2 & WU's were corrupt &/or wouldn't run & program crashed or stopped.
Finally this morning got core a1 & everything seems to be running ok.
And that is how a simple upgrade of 40 minutes turns into 6 hrs of frustration:(
Any feedback or help for the next time much appreciated.
 
Mattus said:
How much RAM are your VMs allocated? There's an issue with these new a2 WUs where they're allocated to systems with too little RAM, so the core crashes. They've been moved back to advanced testing to sort it out, so you should only get them at the moment if your client is set to receive advanced WUs.

Also I've found it easier to run FAHMon in Windows and access the VM clients via a Samba share than to compile FAHMon natively under Linux. It's fairly easy to set up, I'm sure there's a guide somewhere.
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Pesky PC's I'd just finished my reply last night in Firefox, hit the preview button & got bounced to the login page - post lost:confused:

As my 2GB of Ballistix went belly up recently for the 3rd time I'm back to 1GB of Corsair with 380 MB allocated to VM. Was using 260MB last night now 350MB this a.m.
I did try Samba with Dapper Drake but couldn't get it to work, the shared folders. So for now I persevere with Linux ver. of FahMon I guess I must be masochistic. I might try samba again once Hardy Heron it out.

@ Cob I didn't use finstall as I didn't want it to run as a service. I'm familiar with how it works after a manual install: starting, stopping, -oneunit etc.

@ shadowscotland - thanks for that. Incidentally where do you find out this info?

@Yeggstry - I did look at that from Cob but it seems a bit beyond my meagre Linux skills. What I need is "Ubuntu for Dummies" as I don't know my apt-get from my wget at the moment;)
Thanks guys for all your help.
 
uncle_fungus said:
What's wrong with that? It works identically to the Windows version.
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When its running its just fine but not being a Linux guru - see my 1st post - I had problems compiling it. Had 2.6 not 2.8 libwxgtk & Sirius' guide didn't have sudo before make install so it didn't work without it. I guess I'm lazy as the win install of FahMon is a breeze ( 1 click) compared to getting it to work in Ubuntu. I am improving with practise though:) I did say that without yr help section I wouldn't have discover the solution.

@Yeggstry - maybe I'm just timid at trying new things but it hardly ever works first time & compared to windows I'm not sure what's gone wrong let alone how to fix it. But then not have a USB pen drive is a bit of a stumbling block at present:eek:
 
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