F@H configuration on Linux

[Ken g6]

Folding is doing really weird things on my new Ubuntu 16.04 Linux machine. I already had it installed, so first I tried to add a GPU slot. It said: "ERROR: On client "local" 127.0.0.1:36330: No available GPUs".

Edit: Next I finished a CPU WU, and deleted the CPU slot.

So I tried uninstalling and reinstalling FAHClient. That didn't do anything.

Next I tried fully uninstalling and reinstalling FAHClient and FAHControl. Now FahCore_a4 is using 75% of my CPU, but when I launch FAHControl it says nothing's running. 😵

Help!

 

[Markfw]

I had the error on the GPU on a windows box. The problem was the drivers. Not sure on linux, I had so many problems, I gave up and installed win 7, then 10.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've never gotten GPU compute to work on Linux. Always some issue, like no running the app as root, needing some obscure library that wasn't ported because the distro doesn't have a package for it, etc.

 

[Ken g6]

The current problem is not GPU compute. The current problem is a CPU client is running, but it doesn't appear in FAHControl.

 

[TennesseeTony]

See if you can find and delete the config.xml after finishing current tasks. This file doesn't get overwritten during a reinstallation, it appears.

You'll want to make a back up though, as it contains the passkey, so you can just copy and paste. You'll have to set up the client all over again.

 

[Ken g6]

See if you can find and delete the config.xml after finishing current tasks. This file doesn't get overwritten during a reinstallation, it appears.

Aha! That was one clue I needed. The other clue was that `pgrep FAH` found five processes, four of them FAHClient! So I stopped the service and killed the extra FAHClients.

Then I edited the /etc/fahclient/config.xml file, starting with one from my old machine. I restarted the FAH service, and my GPU started crunching! 😀

Here's a basic config.xml for GPU computing, if anyone needs it:

<config>
  <!-- Slot Control -->
  <power v='full'/>

  <!-- User Information -->
  <passkey v='[enter your passkey]'/>
  <team v='198'/>
  <user v='[enter your username]'/>

  <!-- Folding Slots -->
  <slot id='0' type='GPU'/>
</config>

Thanks, everybody!