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[oceaness]

My VM's like throwing this error at me

# SMP Client ##################################################################
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                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.02

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

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Launch directory: /home/jack/folding
Executable: ./fah6
Arguments: -smp -verbosity 9 

[18:35:47] - Ask before connecting: No
[18:35:47] - User name: oceaness (Team 10)
[18:35:47] - User ID: 7E85C8613BFF583D
[18:35:47] - Machine ID: 1
[18:35:47] 
[18:35:47] Loaded queue successfully.
[18:35:47] - Autosending finished units...
[18:35:47] Trying to send all finished work units
[18:35:47] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[18:35:47] - Autosend completed
[18:35:47] 
[18:35:47] + Processing work unit
[18:35:47] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[18:35:47] Core found.
[18:35:47] Working on Unit 09 [October 1 18:35:47]
[18:35:47] + Working ...
[18:35:47] - Calling './mpiexec -np 4 -host 127.0.0.1 ./FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 09 -checkpoint 30 -verbose -lifeline 4317 -version 602'

[18:35:47] 
[18:35:47] *------------------------------*
[18:35:47] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[18:35:47] Version 1.74 (November 27, 2006)
[18:35:47] 
[18:35:47] Preparing to commence simulation
[18:35:47] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[18:36:04] - Looking at optimizations...
[18:36:04] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[18:36:04] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[18:36:04] - Going to use standard loops.
[18:36:04] - Files status OK
[18:36:04] Finalizing output
[18:36:04] - Starting from initial work packet
[18:36:04] 
[18:36:04] Project: 0 (Run 0, Clone 0, Gen 0)
[18:36:04] 
[18:36:04] Error: Could not write local file.  Exiting.
[18:36:04] - Shutting down core

I've tried manually sending the WU but that wont work either.

This is what my first Ubuntu desktop install was doing and now my Ubuntu Server install is doing the same thing, they are set up with 1.5GB of hard disk space of which 65% is being used and 512mb of ram.

So far the only fix I have found is to reinstall Ubuntu but there's no point in having to reinstall Ubuntu every few days or so to make it work

Prob gonna have to go back to Windows client at this rate unless anyone knows why my clients are doing this

 

[oceaness]

That fixed it alright Senture, thanks, but what a lot of hassle having to do that constantly

Have added a little more memory, up to 768mb now. Will see if that helps at all Rich.

 

[oceaness]

I'm afraid I dont know enough about Linux to answer that.

I'm running it as whatever user it asks you to create automatically during setup.
I dont mind finding out if you can tell me how.

My first thought when I saw that error was that it sounded like a permissions problem.

 

[oceaness]

Ok I think I've done it right

Sorry it took a while, not been home.

 

[oceaness]

From what you say it seems to be correct.

Oh well it was worth checking.

It seems to be crunching ok at the moment, got a couple of CVS WU's so churning out a cool 10k ppd.

Thanks for taking the time to explain all that Garp. I'm gradually learning a little more about Linux commands

 

[oceaness]

I've just noticed that whenever the SMP client seems to mess up the timestamps in the log jump miles out. The time in ubuntu is correct it's just FAH for some reason seems to think it's 6:36 when its 20:49. It's normally 1 hour behind my system time because believe its UTC and we're on DST at the moment.

Could these clock issues be arriving through some setting in vmware perhaps?