Folding Forum

May be fixed in 8.5.2 alpha

There is no support for alpha releases.
You should watch and use github if you want to alpha test.

Here is the only documentation of the node system I know about. It is a bit complicated.

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-node

The most important thing to check first is that all clocks are correct.

Not by client. You can probably make a startup shortcut for FAHControl manually.

A google glance makes me think fakeroot is only used for building the Debian package.

https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot

I don’t know what fakeroot is.

Any user should be fine, as long as it has ownership of data files. For GPU folding, it needs render and/or video group membership.

Did you create a non-systemd service for the client?

Did you create an unprivileged user to run the client?

When you use "scons package", an installer package is built. Depending on the system, you get a .deb, .rpm, or macOS .pkg. You can try it and see if it creates something usable. Note that the client data directory is the CWD when the client is launched. I can't help much with gpu problems....

You can compile on a system without systemd. You can then build the tarball with “scons dist”. The installer package would be useless to you because it uses systemctl.

You don’t see machine 2 because it is not connected to the api and/or node servers.
Check its log for errors.
Make sure all system clocks are correct, with a correct time zone.

Also possible that the client is not running.

On Windows, you currently need to pause folding before logout or shutdown to avoid likely dumping of work.

Note that there were errors with the v7 init.d scripts and newer Linux versions. For example, the client may incorrectly run as root, and the stop command may not work because of a missing pid file.

Did your data directory change in the reinstall?

Or Windows is auto rebooting on a patch Tuesday?