(SOLVED) 8.5.5 shows "No folding machines found"

[dickster]

Trying to switch to a different team. Put in my username and team number and let it run. But after 24 hours, nothing showed up for that team. I know it ran some WU's and I watched them upload to the server. Since it wasn't giving me the credits I decided to uninstall and reinstall 8.5.5 again. Entered my user and team number and passkey. But now it doesn't show any machines found. I only run on the gpu (RTX 1650 super) which was working fine.

Running Linux Mint 22.1, Ryzen 5 5500, 64gb ram, firefox. Here iswhat it shows on the web control.


FOLDING
@HOME
Machines
Work Units
Stats
Projects
News

No folding machines found.

Login or install the Folding@home client software.

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[dickster]

Didn't know this would be a hard one. Many views and no reply.

[calxalot]

Look in web browser javascript console for errors.

[calxalot]

Is the client actually running?
If you edited config.xml and made syntax errors, the client will immediately crash.

[dickster]

I can't know if the client is running since it doesn't show any kind of machine in the web app page. How would I go into the web browser to check javescript? If I knew how to post a screenshot I could show you what it shows.

[calxalot]

There must be a task monitor of some sort. You can always open a terminal and use "ps aux | grep fah"

On macOS, I have Firefox menu Tools > Browser Tools > Browser Console

You have to use a third party image hosting service. Uploading images to this forum is not supported.

[calxalot]

maybe
systemctl status fah-client

[dickster]

When I run systemctl status fah-client I get this.

systemctl status fah-client
× fah-client.service - Folding@home Client
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fah-client.service; enabled; prese>
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2026-01-09 20:42:35 CST; 2h 2>
Duration: 15ms
Process: 1556 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fah-client --config=/etc/fah-client/config>
Main PID: 1556 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 15ms

Jan 09 20:42:35 iamphil systemd[1]: fah-client.service: Scheduled restart job, >
Jan 09 20:42:35 iamphil systemd[1]: fah-client.service: Start request repeated >
Jan 09 20:42:35 iamphil systemd[1]: fah-client.service: Failed with result 'exi>
Jan 09 20:42:35 iamphil systemd[1]: Failed to start fah-client.service - Foldin>
lines 1-12/12 (END)

[calxalot]

Please try
fah-client --info

[dickster]

***************************** Folding@home Client ******************************
Version: 8.5.5
Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
Org: foldingathome.org
Copyright: 2023-2025, foldingathome.org
Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
URL: https://v8-5.foldingathome.org/
Date: Dec 2 2025
Time: 14:58:19
Revision: 2c6fbaa45e4ee4854195a9f0d4b86300975b6543
Branch: master
Compiler: GNU 12.5.0
Options: -Wsuggest-override -faligned-new -std=c++17 -fsigned-char -O3 -fPIC
-fstack-protector-strong
Platform: linux 4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64
Bits: 64
Mode: Release
Args: --info
************************************ CBang *************************************
Version: 1.7.2
Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
Org: Cauldron Development
Copyright: Cauldron Development, 2003-2025
Homepage: https://cauldrondevelopment.com/
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
Date: Dec 3 2025
Time: 11:44:04
Revision: 83a4be55c1b21d5383650f51a7887fd9c25b836c
Branch: master
Compiler: GNU 12.5.0
Options: -Wsuggest-override -faligned-new -std=c++17 -fsigned-char -O3 -fPIC
-fstack-protector-strong
Platform: linux 4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64
Bits: 64
Mode: Release
************************************ System ************************************
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
CPU ID: AuthenticAMD Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0
CPUs: 12
Memory: 62.66GiB
Free Memory: 58.75GiB
OS Version: 6.8
Has Battery: false
On Battery: false
Hostname: iamphil
UTC Offset: -6
PID: 5840
CWD: /home/iamphil
Exec: /usr/bin/fah-client

[calxalot]

Please install the fah debug build and see what the log says.

Log will be
/var/log/fah-client/log.txt

[dickster]

Where do I find this debug build?

[Joe_H]

Where do I find this debug build?

That is available on the Beta download page - https://foldingathome.org/beta/. They did a public beta release of v8.5.5, and that became the full release after a period of testing.

[dickster]

Uninstalled and installed the debug package. No change in what it shows and didn't generate a new log. Still have a few of the logs from before I tried to switch teams, but nothing new.

[calxalot]

Please post
/etc/fah-client/config.xml
Redact your passkey.