I just installed Boinc x64, 5.10.8 on a Linux machine (Arch Linux). The client runs fine, and I can look at the tasks remotely, but when I try to look at things locally, I get:

boincmgr: No such file or directory

Logged in as root, boincmgr does exist, and permissions are set to 'Is executable'. ldd shows:

ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for boincmgr, not a dynamic executable.

Anyone have any ideas on this?
PS- I running 5.10.8 on 3 other Linux machines (Fedora Core) and things are fine on those. It is just the Arch Linux installation that has the problem.

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I just installed Boinc x64, 5.10.8 on a Linux machine (Arch Linux). The client runs fine, and I can look at the tasks remotely, but when I try to look at things locally, I get:

boincmgr: No such file or directory

Logged in as root, boincmgr does exist, and permissions are set to 'Is executable'. ldd shows:

ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for boincmgr, not a dynamic executable.

The last stance is really weird. I can imagine a couple of reasons for it:

• this particular executable somehow got invalid. As it works fine on your other linux boxen, you might try to copy it over
  
• dynamic loader on your Arch Linux has some problems either with executable or some library that is required by boincmgr. Not much that you can do about it unless there are updates/upgrades available for your linux distribution
  
• file somehow lost execute permissions. You can set them by executing command chmod 755 boincmgr
  

HTH.

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Metod ...

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The last stance is really weird. I can imagine a couple of reasons for it:

• this particular executable somehow got invalid. As it works fine on your other linux boxen, you might try to copy it over
  
• dynamic loader on your Arch Linux has some problems either with executable or some library that is required by boincmgr. Not much that you can do about it unless there are updates/upgrades available for your linux distribution
  
• file somehow lost execute permissions. You can set them by executing command chmod 755 boincmgr
  

HTH.

1) I have tried a new copy from a working machine- no go.
2) I am trying to find out what library is causing the problem, I thought ldd would have found it, no go. I am going to try doing a static link of boincmgr and see if that will run.
3) First this I tried was chmod, no go.

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I just installed Boinc x64, 5.10.8 on a Linux machine (Arch Linux). The client runs fine, and I can look at the tasks remotely, but when I try to look at things locally, I get:

boincmgr: No such file or directory

Logged in as root, boincmgr does exist, and permissions are set to 'Is executable'. ldd shows:

ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for boincmgr, not a dynamic executable.

Anyone have any ideas on this?
PS- I running 5.10.8 on 3 other Linux machines (Fedora Core) and things are fine on those. It is just the Arch Linux installation that has the problem.

G'day ohiomike

What's the output of

ls -al boincmgr 

?

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CIC1=CC=C(C2=N[C@@H](CC(OC(C)(C)C)=O)C3=NN=C(C)N3C4=C2C(C)=C(C)S4)C=C1

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G'day ohiomike

What's the output of

ls -al boincmgr 

?

ls -al /MC/BOINC/boincmgr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8792428 2007-09-18 05:10 /MC/BOINC/boincmgr

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ls -al /MC/BOINC/boincmgr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8792428 2007-09-18 05:10 /MC/BOINC/boincmgr

Why is root the owner?

Did you install BOINC from the BOINC download pages or is it a package provided by your distro?

The other thing that catches my attention is the file size 8792428 whereas my self-compiled 6.1.0 only comes in at 3484720. The size difference could be explained by your version being statically compiled - ie ldd will report that it is not a dynamically linked executable.

run

 ls -al /MC/BOINC/ 

and see if root is the owner of all BOINC files - this may just be a simple permissions problem.

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CIC1=CC=C(C2=N[C@@H](CC(OC(C)(C)C)=O)C3=NN=C(C)N3C4=C2C(C)=C(C)S4)C=C1

The other thing that catches my attention is the file size 8792428 whereas my self-compiled 6.1.0 only comes in at 3484720.

Don't use 6.1.0. Compile stable branch.

ls -al /MC/BOINC/boincmgr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8792428 2007-09-18 05:10 /MC/BOINC/boincmgr

Why is root the owner?

Did you install BOINC from the BOINC download pages or is it a package provided by your distro?

The other thing that catches my attention is the file size 8792428 whereas my self-compiled 6.1.0 only comes in at 3484720. The size difference could be explained by your version being statically compiled - ie ldd will report that it is not a dynamically linked executable.

run

 ls -al /MC/BOINC/ 

and see if root is the owner of all BOINC files - this may just be a simple permissions problem.

Ya, I own all the files.
There is no real user but root on my test machines, the su this and su that gets old real quick. They are all locked down tight so I don't worry about it.

I should have given some background on this problem:
a) Boinc 5.10.8, x86_64.
b) Same files worked when I was running Fedora Core 6 & 7. It has just been since the change to ARCH Linux that I've had the problems.
c) All patches current as of "now".
d) The i686 version runs fine on ARCH Linux i686, it is just the 64 bit version fighting with me.
It's like it is missing something, and refuses to tell me. The boinc client will always report what it is missing, I wish the manager would too.

I think I'll compile a version of 5.10.8 here, and see what I get.
Anybody have a link to the source that that was built on, I think the newest source I have is v 5.10.7, and the new stuff is ??

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I think I'll compile a version of 5.10.8 here, and see what I get.
Anybody have a link to the source that that was built on, I think the newest source I have is v 5.10.7, and the new stuff is ??

Newest version is 5.10.20. There aren't official Linux binaries for it yet.

$ svn co http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/tags/boinc_core_release_5_10_20

If you can't get that to work, you could try the older 5.10.8. Replace the obvious part of the URL :)