Does anybody have this running successfully on a 2.4.x kernel?

Yep, it runs fine with Red Hat 8 with a 2.4.x kernel

Edit: the Linux client is built on Red Hat 7.3

Did you have to do anything or did it \"just run\"?

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Wasn\'t RH 7.3 released in something like June 2002? Might be nice were they to build their Linux clients on something that resembles most of the Linux boxen out in the wild.

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Did you have to do anything or did it \"just run\"?

No, it just runs.

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Okay, I\'ve finished up my SAP unit. Since that ended up to be a short-term project, there doesn\'t seem to be a whole lot of reason to download and work on another unit that will likely be of no use to science ...

So ...

Any further news with regard to the current CPDN model(s) and how they interact with Slackware? Slack 11 recently released and I\'ll be upgrading my box as soon as my CDs arrive. Has anybody here tried the existing client on Slack 11? If so, what was the result?

I miss my CPDN!

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Have you looked through the Unix/Linux section in Questions and answers?

I know people keep asking about Slackware, but the only thing that I know about it was that it was the \'flavour\' that I tried about 10 years ago, with little success. (I\'m sure, then and now, that the problem was the generic brand of monitor I had back then.)

So far, the best I can come up with is that the CPDN client is compiled on a Linux version that is ~4 years and many versions of glibc ago. It\'s kind of like compiling a Windows executable on Windows for Workgroups and hoping it\'ll work perfectly on XP.

It might. It might not.

It should be noted that the problems only started back in August with the new HADCM3L client. Prior to that, I had no trouble for a couple of years of steadily crunching work. That tells me that the problem isn\'t with Slackware so much as it is with an incompatibility between whatever requirements the new client has that Slackware disagrees with ... or something like that.

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So far, the best I can come up with is that the CPDN client is compiled on a Linux version that is ~4 years and many versions of glibc ago. It\'s kind of like compiling a Windows executable on Windows for Workgroups and hoping

errr, yeah, but that\'s actually the safest bet for Linux -- i.e. backward compatibility is better to target for than forward compatibility. That\'s how BOINC & ever other project does it.

errr, yeah, but that\'s actually the safest bet for Linux -- i.e. backward compatibility is better to target for than forward compatibility.

Understood and I do agree. When my Slackware 11.0 CDs arrive, I\'ll upgrade and give the current CPDN model a shot. I\'m very curious, however, about how the libs requirements differ between SAP and CPDN. I just finished a very happy SAP model, which begs the questions:

* Are the SAP and CPDN Linux clients compiled on the same machine?
* If not, how do the machines differ?

If the clients are compiled on different machines, the differences could hold the secret to why one client model works and the other doesn\'t.

Cheers!

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I changed from Damn Small Linux to PCLinuxOS (MiniMe) and the wu\'s now run, so it wasn\'t a hardware issue. ldd didn\'t report any missing libraries so it doesn\'t seem as though it was a library issue.

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Bumping this one back to the top again ...

Anybody try this with Slackware 11.0 yet? My SAP run will be winding down and with that work unit, so too the project. If CPDN doesn\'t work with Slackware\'s latest release on the 2.4.33 kernel, I guess my CPDN days are *SOB* numbered.

Good news? Please? Anybody?

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Good news? Please? Anybody?

Hi, gang.

Well, I guess it\'s been fun. I finished up my SAP WUs without difficulty and reattached to CPDN on my Slackware 11.0 system. Got the same rewind @ 720 seconds business. Oh, well.

Thanks for a great few years. I really enjoyed the project and I hope that the WUs I crunched were of good use.

Peace to all!

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Well, I guess it\'s been fun. I finished up my SAP WUs without difficulty and reattached to CPDN on my Slackware 11.0 system. Got the same rewind @ 720 seconds business. Oh, well.

And now for something completely different. :-D

Recently, I moved my Slackware 11.0 system from its default 2.4.33.3 kernel/commercial OSS sound driver to 2.6.17.13 kernel/ALSA sound driver. With that, I decided to give CPDN another go. It might be premature to say that everything will be fine, but there is no indication of the 720-second rewind at the outset of the WU. I\'m about 14 min./0.005% into things and all is working well.

For Slackware users who have had trouble, you might want to consider moving to the 2.6x kernels in advance of the official Slackware release as a means of getting things working again. It seems to have solved the problem here.

It\'s lovely to be back. :-D

[ Edited to add: By the way, this is under BOINC 5.8.15, installed just a few minutes before connecting to the project again. ]

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Hi Trane, welcome back.

There are quite a few references to the use all the data is being put to in the News section linked in my sig.

BTW, to make those links in your profile active, I think you\'ll have to add the two [url] tags.

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Cpdn news

BTW, to make those links in your profile active, I think you\'ll have to add the two

[url]

tags.

Thanks for the welcome and hint, mate. I was not aware that CPDN had moved from the HTML-based profiles to bbcode. I\'ve made the appropriate changes. :-)

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