[Interest] Status: Incomplete

Roland Hughes roland at logikalsolutions.com
Sun Oct 22 11:45:31 CEST 2017


With that version of Mint it was 100% reproducable and there was a long 
list of people on the BOINC forum victimized by it. The problem was 
never fixed in Mint 17 64-bit. Most of us ended up identifying one 
64-bit distribution where a certain combination of things could get it 
to work and jumping ship on Mint all together. I had 4 machines running 
it, scratch that, 5. I have none running it now and I no longer make any 
monetary donations to Mint, which I was pretty religious about doing 
previously.


On 10/22/2017 04:39 AM, Jake Petroules wrote:
>  From a cursory overview, it seems that the issue was assumed to not be reproducible anymore, and no one reported to the contrary.
>
> What more do you want?
>
>> On Oct 22, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nothing to do with Qt but given our previous given out previous conversation on how OpenSource bugs are left to rot then mass exterminated, this one just showed up in my inbox this morning. It's noteworthy because, yet again, to avoid working on something the maintainer flagged the report "Incomplete." Given the amount of detail in the report the "incomplete" status is laughable but an all too common trick.
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:	[Bug 1434570] Re: 64-bit BOINC crashes with ever NVidia driver
>> Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2017 04:17:32 -0000
>> From:	Launchpad Bug Tracker <1434570 at bugs.launchpad.net>
>> Reply-To:	Bug 1434570 <1434570 at bugs.launchpad.net>
>> To:	roland at logikalsolutions.com
>>
>> [Expired for boinc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
>> days.]
>>
>> ** Changed in: boinc (Ubuntu)
>>         Status: Incomplete => Expired
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434570
>>
>>
>> Title:
>>    64-bit BOINC crashes with ever NVidia driver
>>
>> Status in Linux Mint:
>>    Expired
>> Status in boinc package in Ubuntu:
>>    Expired
>>
>> Bug description:
>>    Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' KDE 64-bit
>>
>>    BOINC cannot identify CUDA with any of the NVidia drivers unless one
>>    manually installs the backported nvidia-modprobe. 32-bit version does
>>    not have this problem. In fact the 32-bit versions of things work
>>    flawlessly. 64-bit appears to have never been tested.
>>
>>    Install BOINC.
>>    Install Nvidia 331 driver
>>    Reboot.
>>    Launch BOINC manager select advanced view, Advanced->Event Log
>>    Scroll back to the top and you will see a line stating something like "no useable CUDA found.
>>
>>    Click on the little blue start button in the lower left corner.
>>
>>    In the little search bar at the top type "sour" and you should see an
>>    option for "Software Sources" appear. Click it.
>>
>>    Click the "Additional repositories" button on left.
>>
>>    Click the "Add a new repository" button at bottom.
>>
>>    paste in the following:
>>
>>    deb
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
>>   trusty-backports main restricted
>>    universe multiverse
>>
>>    Click "Ok"
>>
>>    Click the "update" or "refresh" button on upper right side of screen.
>>    (This will be greyed out with "No action required" until you actually
>>    add something and I don't remember what the text chagnes to.)
>>
>>    Exit out of all windows.
>>
>>    Click on the little blue start button in the lower left corner.
>>
>>    Applications->System->Synaptic Package Manager
>>
>>    Enter password when prompted.
>>
>>    After the index finishes updating type "modpro" in the "Quick filter"
>>    field
>>
>>    Mark nvidia-modprobe for installation, then click "Apply changes"
>>
>>    Exit everything and reboot
>>
>>    Open your BOINC manager.
>>
>>    Click Advanced->Event Log
>>
>>    Scroll to top of log (it always shows last entry when it opens) You
>>    should see something like:
>>
>>    Tue 10 Mar 2015 06:35:09 AM CDT | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 630
>>    (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 3.5,
>>    2047MB, 1973MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak)
>>
>>    near the beginning.
>>
>>    Now, be sure to subscribe to Einstein at Home (other projects do use
>>    CUDA, but I know this one uses it heavy and makes the problem happen.)
>>
>>    With the base 331 driver you can go for quite a few hours before
>>    machine starts getting slow. If left with manager up over night most
>>    mornings will display "NVidia Crash".  This will be displayed by one
>>    of two conditions.
>>
>>    1)  Mouse will move on screen but nothing will respond.  SSH in from
>>    another machine and terminal applications seem to run.
>>
>>    2) You will wiggle the mouse and notice screens don't come out of
>>    darked out mode. Looking down at the keyboard you will notice the 3
>>    indicator lights turning on and off in sequence.
>>
>>    Installing 331-updates driver will let your computer operate less than
>>    half a day.
>>
>>    Installing any of the 34x drivers out of edgers PPA will have you
>>    crashing many times per day.
>>
>>    
>>    Note: with the 32-bit version you simply install BOINC, install 331 driver, reboot, and everything is flawless. This bug is 64-bit specific. If you visit this thread:
>>    
>> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10046&postid=61102#61102
>>
>>    you will see the desktop does not matter. Whether beautiful KDE or one of the Gicky-Gnasty-Gnome desktops is used one achieves the same results.
>>
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