Running BOINC or Folding@Home on OMV

mbourd25 · 28. Oktober 2014

Hi gang, just a small question, can BOINC or Folding@Home run on OMV?

Would it be difficult to install and monitor the progress of projects of BOINC or Folding@Home?

Thanks, Marc.

ness1602 · 28. Oktober 2014

I would also like to know that.

subzero79 · 28. Oktober 2014

OMV is built on top of Debian Wheezy.

ryecoaaron · 28. Oktober 2014

I have folded for many years (still do). I use Debian on my folders and it works fine on OMV. I do recommend using the backports 3.16 kernel though. Use the command line client and setup is the same as any other linux system. If you need more help setting up, ask

ryecoaaron · 31. Oktober 2014

@mbourd25 and @ness1602

I made a Folding@Home plugin. If you would like to test, it is here (amd64 only right now). I haven't used the v7 client much. So, it may need some fixing.

ness1602 · 5. November 2014

Thank you, will try it as soon as i can. Does it need backport kernel?

ryecoaaron · 5. November 2014

No but I think it may be faster.

mbourd25 · 6. November 2014

Hi ryecoaaron, I keep getting this error message when trying to install the folding package.

chown: cannot access `/var/lib/fahclient': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing openmediavault-folding (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for openmediavault ...
Restarting engine daemon ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
openmediavault-folding

Let me know how I can better assist in giving you more info if you need it.

Thanks.

ryecoaaron · 6. November 2014

Try: mkdir -p /var/lib/fahclient
and try installing again.

If that fixes it, I will add it to the plugin

ness1602 · 6. November 2014

I got this error:
Error
#4000:
exception 'OMVException' with message 'Failed to execute command 'export
LANG=C; update-rc.d 'folding' disable 2>&1': update-rc.d: error:
no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing' in
/usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc:90
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/initscript.inc(56):
OMVSysVInitScript->update(true)
#1 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/module/folding.inc(110):
OMVSysVInitScript->exec()
#2 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/config.inc(164):
OMVModuleFolding->stopService()
#3 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceConfig->applyChanges(Array,
Array)
#4 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125):
call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#5 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(158):
OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('applyChanges', Array, Array)
#6 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/config.inc(224):
OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethodBg('applyChanges', Array, Array)
#7 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceConfig->applyChangesBg(Array,
Array)
#8 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125):
call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#9 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(79):
OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('applyChangesBg', Array, Array)
#10 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(501): OMVRpc::exec('Config', 'applyChangesBg',
Array, Array, 1)
#11 {main}

ryecoaaron · 6. November 2014

That error is because the download from Stanford seems to be corrupt so the service cannot start.

crisman · 7. November 2014

Hi Aaron,

I've also tried to install this plugin and got this error:

Code

2014-11-07 17:11:21 (450 KB/s) - `/tmp/fahclient.tar.bz2' saved [4266118/4266118]


tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
dpkg: error processing openmediavault-folding (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for openmediavault ...
Restarting engine daemon ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openmediavault-folding

Alles anzeigen

I've already created this directory

Code

mkdir -p /var/lib/fahclient

and reinstalled with the last error message.

and inside the plugin on the "queue" tab this error is present:

Code

/usr/share/fahclient/FAHClient: not found

ryecoaaron · 7. November 2014

There is nothing I can do to fix it. The downloaded package from Stanford is a bzip2 package and tar with the j flag (for bzip2) can't extract it. On Windows, I can extract the files with 7-zip but it gives me an error. The copyright says the files can only be downloaded from Stanford's server. So, I can't mirror them

crisman · 7. November 2014

so its better forget this plugin for now?

ryecoaaron · 7. November 2014

Let me think of a different way to download the package and/or extract it.

ness1602 · 10. November 2014

Maybe you can try to make BOINC plugin?

mbourd25 · 13. November 2014

Has anyone tried to install directly BOINC on there OMV server?

If yes, does it work properly?

Thanks.

ryecoaaron · 13. November 2014

If this works, it will work on OMV.

mbourd25 · 13. November 2014

I will give it a try. I hate it that my OMV server stays on all day and night doing nothing.

I tried using the RTCWAKE command to shut it off for a certain time during the night, but it never worked.

Thanks ryecoaaron.

mbourd25 · 19. November 2014

HI gang, I installed BOINC on my OMV server and tried to start it by attaching it to my World Community Grid but BOINC never wanted to start even when I entered the command to run all the time.

Is there an application that I can run from my Ubuntu workstation that can connect to BOINC on the server?

Thanks.

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