SMP Guide

shadowscotland · 11 Apr 2007 at 10:56

you do that by right clicking on the folder? thanks Uncle

Given morgan his own keyboard now so this doesn't happen again (well untill he's about 2 anyway :rolleyes:

)

uncle_fungus · 11 Apr 2007 at 12:34

shadowscotland said:
you do that by right clicking on the folder? thanks Uncle

Given morgan his own keyboard now so this doesn't happen again (well untill he's about 2 anyway )

Yeah, the permissions should be:

User: Read-Write
Group: Read
World: Read

Before you try and start it up again with the finstall scripts, try launching it manually and see if it works that way first.

Code:

~/foldingathome/CPU1/fah5 -verbosity 9

SiriusB · 11 Apr 2007 at 18:05

Hey guys

OK as some of you know I have been away for a week which means 7 days of not working on the SMP website. I also took delivery of my C2D upgrade. I started the swap-over last night but got bogged down with cleaning out the months of dust that got everywhere. As such I have only just started putting in the new bits this afternoon.

The upgrade is almost complete and I am dilly-dallying over the cable management. Previously it was a bloody nightmare but I am going to town on it and going so far as to sleeve it all :eek:

I should probably test fire the upgrade before messing about but I just know if I start booting it up I will just forget about the cable management

So anyway, in a day or two when I have everything up and running as I like it I will continue work on the SMP page. I have redesigned it somewhat as I didn't really like the current design. The site should be ready by next week barring any disasters.

Mattus · 14 Apr 2007 at 02:38

I've clearly done something catastrophically stupid here

The executable appears in the directory listing but when I try and execute it, it's not there. What's going on?!

uncle_fungus · 14 Apr 2007 at 03:07

Mattus said:
I've clearly done something catastrophically stupid here

The executable appears in the directory listing but when I try and execute it, it's not there. What's going on?!

Nooo, don't use dir...horrible Windows/DOS legacy, use ls and do it the Linux way

Anyway, it looks like you haven't installed ia32-libs, so the fah client doesn't know what to do.

Run the following commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

If that fails, complaining that it can't find an installation source, do this:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment all the lines that start with deb or deb-src (technically speaking you don't need to uncomment them all, its just easier if you do

), save the file and exit gedit.

Then run:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

That should now install the required libraries, and allow the fah client to run.

It might also be worthwhile doing

Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade

whilst you're at it, to update all your installed package to the very latest versions.

shadowscotland · 28 Apr 2007 at 22:12

Guess what

Got me a silly little dear and it's giveing me problems (no surprises)
Revised Ubuntu problems when I did an update - got a whole load of this:

http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-commercial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2: Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-commercial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2: Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-backports/restricted/source/Sources.bz2: Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
http://theli.free.fr/packages/dists/edgy/listen/binary-amd64/Packages.gz: 301 Moved Permanently
http://theli.free.fr/packages/dists/edgy/listen/binary-amd64/Packages.gz: 301 Moved Permanently

downloaded FF and followed guide - no luck
Follow problem I had last time in this thread - no luck

Why-oh-Why did I do an update - if it an't broke don't fix it

Furthest I can get is here:

stephen@lemonman:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
ia32-libs: Depends: lib32stdc++6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Help please

uncle_fungus · 28 Apr 2007 at 22:24

can you post us a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list?

It looks like you've got a whole load of borked repos in the lists.

shadowscotland · 28 Apr 2007 at 22:47

thanks for the post uncle - but you forgot to say HOW i get you this information.

Edit: not that nOObie afterall

## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free

## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure and more to come.)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main

## Listen
deb http://theli.free.fr/packages/ edgy listen

## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy non-free

## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure and more to come.)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main

## Listen
deb http://theli.free.fr/packages/ edgy listen

off to bed - got an early start tomorrow (thanks in advance for any help)

SiriusB · 1 May 2007 at 01:08

Hey everyone.

OK I would like to apologise for basically ignoring the SMP Guide and website. I wont go into detail but I have been a bit busy the last few weeks and it hasn't been a priority.

Now that Feisty Fawn has been released it is about time I corrected and updated the SMP Guide. I will also continue work on the webpage. There isn't anything to take up my time for the forseeable future so I shall make sure I put some effort in

SiriusB · 1 May 2007 at 13:18

OK I have finished updating the guide:

www.aeternum.co.uk/SMPGuideVer0.5.odt

I have also changed the links in the original post. Only have odt format at the moment I'm afraid, but Word might still be able to read it

Would appreciate someone going over it to make sure I haven't missed anything [This is a BIG thread!]

shadowscotland · 1 May 2007 at 14:16

I'll run through it tonight with a new install if you like - that's if I've got my broadband back - it died yesterday morning

SiriusB · 1 May 2007 at 14:28

I would appreciate it if you did it with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. Not sure if the alternate steps are clear enough!

Cheers matey.

shadowscotland · 1 May 2007 at 15:19

Ok - Have DD on a disk so will use that.
But Dio's trick of using your HDD to host the .iso was much quicker, had FF up and running in VM in under 25minutes (have installed this quite a few times now :rolleyes:

)

uncle_fungus · 1 May 2007 at 16:47

A few comments, not criticisms re the FahMon instructions.

1) Remove the sudo from sudo scons since compilation doesn't require root access, and root compiling things can potentially trash your system (like root compiling a kernel for example

).
2) After FahMon has been installed, recommend that people update the projects list from the FahMon menu and/or enable automatic project updates.

Just a note about the compilation issues that people have been reporting. From what I've read so far from various forums (not just here) there are only two reasons for FahMon failing to compile:
1) Fouled up dependencies caused by either not following the instructions correctly, or trying to compile wxGTK yourself. This will cause scons to die with errors about not finding various wxGTK headers. There is currently an issue with wxGTK2.8 (which I've fixed for the next release) that means it won't compile, but if you follow the instructions you wouldn't have installed that version anyway.
2) You have a distro that makes a mess of it's compiler linking (I'm talking about symlinks here for anyone who's interested). For some reason SUSE for example doesn't install g++ as g++ rather as something like gcc-g++41, so when scons runs it generates errors like sh: -o: command not found
If you follow the installation instructions here: http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/index.php?n=Main.Installation to the letter, it is virtually impossible to get it to not work

Sorry that sounds like a bit of a rant now doesn't it

Oh and thanks for the acknowledgment at the end too

SiriusB · 1 May 2007 at 16:56

The reason my original FahMon install didn't work was because Billy had me compiling GTK myself

I will remove the sudo from the scons command - well spotted. Will also mention the projects update. And you're welcome. You have saved a lot of people some headaches, me included

Will try and update the file asap - currently cooking tea for 6 people AND trying to fix someones computer via email :/

shadowscotland · 1 May 2007 at 20:08

uncle_fungus said:
it is virtually impossible to get it to not work

what even for me

here we go again.... wish me luck

Edit: finstall worked in FF like a dream - will do a full dd install later tonight.

SiriusB · 1 May 2007 at 21:21

I hope your home is insured shadow... something went right for you in Linux which probably means a meteor is going to land on your house

shadowscotland · 1 May 2007 at 22:37

lol

well so far this week:

Cons:
Updated DD to FF - failed
DD crashed causeing reboot
Loaded FF from scratch and Broadband dies (sun) Not on all day
removed FF and DD, reinstalled modem still no access machine left crunching standard units (mon)
reconfigured firewall to allow upload of standard units (again)

Pros
Broadband back up lunchtime today! now +1mb at 5mb

Reloaded FF again all's well (inc updates)
Finstall and SMP up and running
that makes three smp's running 24/7 this week :cool:

I think I've had enough linux 'issues' this week thank you very much, with out celestial intervention (and yes house is insured

)

Edit: Off to bed now (pre 6am start) so will follow guide tomorrow with a spot of luck

SiriusB · 2 May 2007 at 16:42

I have updated and uploaded the guide. As you will notice it now has a version number. This is in anticipation of it being almost complete and bug free.

As you may notice I still need some information about how Feisty handles NVidia graphics cards.

In my FF I have enabled the ATI restricted driver, although there is a good chance this isn't needed [my graphics were fine but I just wanted to see what would happen

].

So if any of you have an NVidia graphics card I would really appreciate knowing how you get on

Other than that I think everything is as it should be. Going to try and make some progress on the webpage now - been nearly a month since I looked at it so probably take all night to work out what I was trying to do!

EDIT: I would also like your thoughts on how easy the guide is to follow now that I have made changes to incorporate Feisty Fawn.

SiriusB · 4 May 2007 at 02:56

http://www.aeternum.co.uk/smp.html

The site is not complete [only marked up the first section, I wont be doing much more until after the weekend as I am going away Friday afternoon].

Posting the addy now so you can all have a look and tell me what you think. I changed the look and feel of the page - wasn't entirely happy with the last design and it was creating problems.

I would really appreciate any ideas/thoughts/suggestions you have regarding the current template. I should point out that the above is just the one page, so most of the internal links do not work