Linux Mint 19.1 problems

[1pkil]

I downloaded client yesterday, install was simple.. meaning software INSTALL.
After install started FAHcontrol and looks like my client is wewy silent one.. FAHcontrol shows only Client: local connecting Inactive
It has now shown this since install and nothing happens.

I have tried to search more info, but this FAHcontrol has no menus or selections that some instructions are informing to check or set.

I'm not sure if actual client is even installed or did it come with fahcontrol_7.5.1-1_all.deb package?

It would be nice to help this project, but like all similar project.. manuals and instructions and troubleshooting is nearly hopeless.
Its great that maybe this works to someone, but to me this looks like time wasted.

[Jesse_V]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

FAHControl is just the front-end. You need to install FAHClient. The installation instructions are here: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/i ... des/linux/

Let us know if you need help with a step and we can walk you through it.

[mrindian1947]

Search through this board. I have Mint running on two computers with Nvidia cards.
It took awhile to get it up and running because the directions are listed in various spots on this board.
You will find your GPU will not be found because you need to install CUDA or OPENCL on your system.
Its available on the nvidia website - just not easy to find.
I can't offer much more, as I'm only a beginning linux user. But an hour work and I got it going.
It's also much faster than using WIN10

[1pkil]

Why download and 'Start folding' offers only FAHControl front-end?
Why actual client is hidden somewhere inside faq documents? Really..??

I did find that out actually yesterday right after sending my message here, but didn't get any actual folding done or started yet.. because 'something'..

Really great tip about GPU, need to check that also when first get client working with cpu.

Getting started/Download page looks different depending what OS and web browser you're running. Someone should check that it really show correct information and hiding this linux FAHClient insode faq might drop some random helpers off.. or maybe thats the point, not sure.

[1pkil]

haha.. this is funny.

I installed windows 10 version. It worked great.. did 3% of some corona workblock.. then noticed there are some themes to change.
Big mistake.. and tested to change random theme, instantly folding@home front-end died and no longer starts.

Uninstalled everything, rebooted pc, installed again same windows 10 package -> front-end not starting, web ui starts using chrome and flashes every 2-3 sec. just like I would be hitting refresh button in browser all the time.

Next I will again uninstall folding@home, then search every trace of FAHClient or anything related to this and delete.. then reboot.. reinstall..
If it still fails, then I will just forget this and wish you all happy foldings.. most likely too difficult for me, even than I have worked supporting various computer systems since 1986.

[Darth_Peter_dualxeon]

Linux Mint 19.3 user here.
I had troubles too, when I installed this program recently a few weeks ago.

i had this error at install: "update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!"
(because FAHclient is supposed to run as a service deep inside Linux, probably something is mis-configured at my system, so it does not install correctly, there are dependencies and whatever...)

I installed them like this finally with success:

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sudo dpkg -i --force-depends fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends fahviewer_7.5.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends fahcontrol_7.5.1-1_all.deb

And then it was still not good, but, running "FAHClient" in a terminal window, as normal user got all working, FAHControl can connect to that and all okay.
And, look at the firewall's rules and settings, let the 8080 port outgoing connections to happen. Incoming connections can be blocked safely, for this matter.

if you see error messages like "Failed to get assignment from .... : No WUs available for this configuration" but internet connection is good, then you just need to wait, folding people just breaked the exaflop barrier and sometimes servers may get empty of work units.

For Cuda & Opencl, you need to install the video card driver. Now that, depending on the card may be either very easy in the "driver manager" of Linux mint (Nvidia 10xx series or older) and no problems,

Or, for My RTX2070, I had to download the driver from Nvidia's website, change the system to runlevel 3 (just console, no graphics) and install the driver from there.
there is the etc/default/grub file, change "quiet splash" to "3" then sudo update-grub and reboot
Install the driver from the console mode, undo the above mentioned changes in the grub configuration and then sudo update-grub and reboot again.
Then you will have Nvidia Xserver settings and I recommend to install psensors package for temperature sensors too.
(and if you update the kernel, you may need to repeat his again...)

If you have AMD video card, I don't know but it might be similar...

and you will also need the ocl-icd-opencl-dev package to get opencl working.

And when you have everything up and running, register your email to get a passkey, otherwise you get 7x less points (no bonus points for being fast).

happy folding!

[1pkil]

Managed to fix my windows 10 FAH.. now again fighting with Linux.
Now everything looks working.. but.. FAHViewer is giving me error message if pressing FAHControl 'Viewer' button.

Failed to launch viewer with command:
FAHViewer --width=800 --height=600 --mode=5 --cycle-snapshots=true --connect=127.0.0.1:36330 --slot=0
[Errno 2] No such file or directory

I think this worked fine yesterday, at some point.. but broken now.

[1pkil]

FAQ has links to old Linux versions..
Problem is fixed by installing everything once again using FAQ commands , then
sudo apt-get install -f
and finally then installing fahcontrol_7.5.1-1_all.deb

[Roadpower]

Mint 19.3 here on Ryzen 3700X & B450 platform with RX480 GPU. I am a very long time computer user but relatively new to *nix. My skills with *nix are very weak but despite that I've tried numerous times to follow various suggestions for how to get the RX480 working (detected) and from everything I've seen all the required software is installed, but again my skills with *nix are weak so I might be wrong. I'd like to contribute but I am not going to continue to beat my head against a wall and I will not be using Microsoft after support for Windows Seven was discontinued. It either needs to work on *nix without being overtly complicated or there is nothing else I can do.

I can run modern titles like Doom and Shadow of Tomb raider but FAH won't work, that's a shame since FAH is a more important than a video game. If this was a case of installing another version of *nix on a separate SSD to test that it works I'd be willing to try that as shuffling hardware around for testing purposes is within my abilities.

[Rainmaker]

FAH won't work

More specifically?

[Roadpower]

FAH won't work

More specifically?

OpenCL Not detected: clGetPlatformIDs ( ) returned -1001

The required software of:
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

is installed according to Synaptic Package Manager. FAH runs on the CPU just fine.

[Rainmaker]

Following the advice in this thread solved that error for me.

[Roadpower]

Following the advice in this thread solved that error for me.

Thank you, I tried following the advice in that thread a few days ago to no avail. I actually got a weird reaction in the control panel as it greyed everything out which I think meant that client service wasn't running. So I deleted the file that was created and gave up (I'm not very good with *nix yet anyway). Wednesday I'm getting a RTX 2070 Super GPU and will then take the RX 480 and put it back in my old computer.