I'm having a little trouble installing boinc on CentOS 5 as I'm very new to the OS and learning as I go. It's not letting me do a yum install, and so i downloaded the install file (.sh whatever it was) and and trying to run that. To do so, i typed

[root@localhost boinc]# sh boinc_ubuntu_5.10.45_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh



the error message was:

use /root/Desktop/boinc/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC


So then I decided to try and do sh run_manager (in the correct folder) and it gave me the error message

./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXcomposite.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


any help would be appreciated =)

How new/old is CentOS 5? I know it's Red Hat based, but that's about it.

Couple things...

You don't need to unpack the .sh as root. You can do that with your regular user account.

It's possible that the Ubuntu build's manager won't work for you. You can try an older version. They are here, scroll down to the bottom and try 5.8.16 and see if that runs for you.

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Kathryn :o)

5.10.45 doesn´t work properly on CentOS or Scientific Linux 5. Can you look at the version numbers of libcurl, zliB and OpenSSL on your system?

5.10.45 doesn´t work properly on CentOS or Scientific Linux 5. Can you look at the version numbers of libcurl, zliB and OpenSSL on your system?

5.10.45 has been working just fine on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system ever since it came out. I had no trouble installing it. I just installed it by running the .sh script in the right directory as usual.

CentOS5 should be the same.

zlib-1.2.3-3
openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5_0.2
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5

P.S.:

libXcomposite-0.3-5.1 is the current version that comes with RHEL5.

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I just tried to test 6.2.11...

I got many of these gzopen crashes on Scientific Linux 5.1 and 5.2:
[trac]#537[/trac]

I just had the same issue on Centos.

The fix for me - believe it or not - was

> yum install libXcomposite

!

How new/old is CentOS 5? I know it's Red Hat based, but that's about it.

Couple things...

You don't need to unpack the .sh as root. You can do that with your regular user account.

It's possible that the Ubuntu build's manager won't work for you. You can try an older version. They are here, scroll down to the bottom and try 5.8.16 and see if that runs for you.

CentOS 5 is the current version, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 which is also the current one. The BOINC client and BOINC manager work fine on CentOS 4 (not a typo) and RHEL 5. I currently am running boinc client 5.10.45 on CentOS 4 and boinc client 6.2.14 on RHEL5

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I just had the same issue on Centos.

The fix for me - believe it or not - was

> yum install libXcomposite

!

Yes, it is difficult to believe. I did not have to do that because CentOS4 comes with xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.4 and I doubt your GUI would work without that.
And for RHEL5, it comes with libXcomposite-0.3-5.1 that I did not have to install either. Must have come with the distribution.

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I just had the same issue on Centos.

The fix for me - believe it or not - was

> yum install libXcomposite

!

I just installed the new centos, gnome version, googled the error 'libXcomposite.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

scanned this thread, tried your code, and it worked. so I created this account here just to post and say

Thank You.

MtG

I just downloaded 6.10.44 to my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) system and it works just fine with no fiddling around.

The latest version I can find that works on my CentOS 4 system is 5.10.45. Anything after that fails due to the CentOS 4 libraries being too old, but 5.10.45 continues to work on that system.

(I am not asking for help.)

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Runing BOINC 6.10.58 on Centos 5.5. After installing BOING I receive the following error message:

03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'webexternallink.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'nvidiaicon.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'atiicon.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'multicore.xpm'!
03:55:00 AM: Error: Can't load image from file 'projects/boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta/stat_icon': file does not exist.

How important are this errors? Please not that the space used by BOINC projects does not seams increasing as I expected by the number of finish tasks compared with another computer I have.

Please have a look at http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php?userid=390162 for any suspect data regarding a compatibility problem of running BOINC on Centos.

Thank you,
Mihai Ionita
[email protected];
[email protected];
0040729252886
Bachelor degree student at Faculty of Biotechnology -
biotehnologii.usamv.ro/
Bucharest, Romania

Runing BOINC 6.10.58 on Centos 5.5. After installing BOING I receive the following error message:

03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'webexternallink.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'nvidiaicon.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'atiicon.xpm'!
03:54:21 AM: Error: Memory VFS already contains file 'multicore.xpm'!
03:55:00 AM: Error: Can't load image from file 'projects/boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta/stat_icon': file does not exist.

How important are this errors? Please not that the space used by BOINC projects does not seams increasing as I expected by the number of finish tasks compared with another computer I have.

Not important at all, AFAIK. I've seen them after starting the manager using the terminal. Never seemed to affect the running of BOINC.

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Kathryn :o)