Update from 7.5.1 to 7.6.9 on Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS did not wo

[panonymous]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble updating the FAHClient from 7.5.1 to 7.6.9 on Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

What I did:

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1. Downloaded Ubuntu packages from https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
2. dpkg -i fahclient_7.6.9_amd64.deb
3. dpkg -i fahcontrol_7.6.9-1_all.deb
4. dpkg -i fahviewer_7.6.9_amd64.deb
5. systemctl start FAHClient
6. As a normal user: FAHControl

Expected behaviour:
FAHControl shows up, connects to FAHClient and continues the work it has received when 7.5.1 was installed.

Observed behaviour:
FAHControl shows up, but is not able to connect to localhost:36330
/var/lib/fahclient/log.txt only showed the normal fahclient output (searching for work assignments etc).

Also: When removing 7.6.9 and reinstalling 7.5.1 the gpu work unit that was in progress seems to be lost. Even though I saved /var/lib/fahclient beforehand and did a diff of the directories ...

[scic0]

I also faced the same problem. What you can try is open

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htop

in a terminal and filter with 'FAH' and then in another terminal go to

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/etc/init.d

and try running

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./FAHClient stop

and check if all the processes of FaH exit (in htop). If any process is still running,

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kill

it manually. Then start the client using

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./FAHClient start

.

You can also

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tail

the FaH logs at

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/var/lib/fahclient/log.txt

and check what is happening as you run these commands.

In my case, some of the processes of FAH were not exiting properly, hence on restarting FAHClient, it was not able to bind to the ports 7396 (For Web Control) and 36330 (For FAH Advanced Control)

Hope this helps!!

[panonymous]

scic0 thanks for your help! With a newer version (7.6.13) the problem did not appear any more.