New Install Stuck at No Work

[gaeilgeoir]

Question by a relative fah newbie here.

I followed the build RPM instructions on GH, building for the latest verision (V8.5.7), but I must have gone wrong somewhere.

I am able to connect to the client via web control, and the logs look like this, please help me make sense of what is going wrong here

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14:40:03:INFO(1): Version: 8.5.7
14:40:03:INFO(1): Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
14:40:03:INFO(1): Org: foldingathome.org
14:40:03:INFO(1): Copyright: 2023-2026, foldingathome.org
14:40:03:INFO(1): Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
14:40:03:INFO(1): License: GPL-3.0-or-later
14:40:03:INFO(1): URL: https://v8-5.foldingathome.org/
14:40:03:INFO(1): Date: Mar 1 2026
14:40:03:INFO(1): Time: 03:29:43
14:40:03:INFO(1): Revision: d9322a34b4ec5f8a53e00c5b8057e30fe089959d
14:40:03:INFO(1): Branch: master
14:40:03:INFO(1): Compiler: GNU 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)
14:40:03:INFO(1): Options: -Wsuggest-override -faligned-new -std=c++17 -fsigned-char -O3 -fPIC
14:40:03:INFO(1): -fstack-protector-strong
14:40:03:INFO(1): Platform: linux 6.18.13-200.fc43.x86_64
14:40:03:INFO(1): Bits: 64
14:40:03:INFO(1): Mode: Release
14:40:03:INFO(1): Args: --config=/etc/fah-client/config.xml
14:40:03:INFO(1): --log=/var/log/fah-client/log.txt
14:40:03:INFO(1): --log-rotate-dir=/var/log/fah-client/
14:40:03:INFO(1): Config: /etc/fah-client/config.xml
14:40:03:INFO(1):*************************** CBang ****************************
14:40:03:INFO(1): Version: 1.7.2
14:40:03:INFO(1): Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
14:40:03:INFO(1): Org: Cauldron Development
14:40:03:INFO(1): Copyright: Cauldron Development, 2003-2026
14:40:03:INFO(1): Homepage: https://cauldrondevelopment.com/
14:40:03:INFO(1): License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
14:40:03:INFO(1): Date: Mar 1 2026
14:40:03:INFO(1): Time: 03:29:28
14:40:03:INFO(1): Revision: b035c73e420885dd27046bb008ef079909e073af
14:40:03:INFO(1): Branch: master
14:40:03:INFO(1): Compiler: GNU 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)
14:40:03:INFO(1): Options: -Wsuggest-override -faligned-new -std=c++17 -fsigned-char -O3 -fPIC
14:40:03:INFO(1): -fstack-protector-strong
14:40:03:INFO(1): Platform: linux 6.18.13-200.fc43.x86_64
14:40:03:INFO(1): Bits: 64
14:40:03:INFO(1): Mode: Release
14:40:03:INFO(1):*************************** System ***************************
14:40:03:INFO(1): CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13650HX
14:40:03:INFO(1): CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 183 Stepping 1
14:40:03:INFO(1): CPUs: 20
14:40:03:INFO(1): Memory: 31.06GiB
14:40:03:INFO(1):Free Memory: 17.84GiB
14:40:03:INFO(1): OS Version: 6.18
14:40:03:INFO(1):Has Battery: true
14:40:03:INFO(1): On Battery: false
14:40:03:INFO(1): Hostname: fedora
14:40:03:INFO(1): UTC Offset: 0
14:40:03:INFO(1): PID: 35581
14:40:03:INFO(1): CWD: /var/lib/fah-client
14:40:03:INFO(1): Exec: /usr/bin/fah-client
14:40:03:INFO(1):**************************************************************
14:40:03:INFO(2):<config/>
14:40:03:INFO(1):Opening Database
14:40:03:INFO(1):F@H ID = ***
14:40:03:INFO(3):Loading default resource group
14:40:03:INFO(2):Listening for HTTP on 127.0.0.1:7396
14:40:03:INFO(3):Loaded 0 wus.
14:40:03:INFO(2):Loading gpus.json
14:40:03:INFO(3):gpus = {
14:40:03:INFO(3): "gpu:01:00:00": {
14:40:03:INFO(3): "vendor": 4318,
14:40:03:INFO(3): "type": "nvidia",
14:40:03:INFO(3): "description": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU",
14:40:03:INFO(3): "uuid": "***",
14:40:03:INFO(3): "opencl": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "3.0", "driver": "580.126"},
14:40:03:INFO(3): "cuda": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "12.0", "driver": "13.0"},
14:40:03:INFO(3): "device": 11545,
14:40:03:INFO(3): "supported": true
14:40:03:INFO(3): }
14:40:03:INFO(3):}
14:40:03:INFO(2):OUT1:> GET /machine/*** HTTP/1.1
14:40:04:INFO(2):REQ2:< GET /api/websocket HTTP/1.1
14:40:05:INFO(2):OUT1:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
14:41:27:INFO(1):Machine state fold

I tried with my GPU enabled and disabled but to no avail.

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Many thanks for your support

[Joe_H]

This version is not ready for release, and any problems with it you should ask about on the GitHub.

The current release version is v8.5.5 and can be downloaded from here - https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

There is a v8.5.6 that was released to internal testing, it may or may not be released to a public beta.

[muziqaz]

This version is not ready for release, and any problems with it you should ask about on the GitHub.

The current release version is v8.5.5 and can be downloaded from here - https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

There is a v8.5.6 that was released to internal testing, it may or may not be released to a public beta.

8.5.6 is in public beta and has RPM package and works well
www.foldingathome.org/beta

[Joe_H]

I asked, never got a go-ahead to post it as a Public Beta as there were problems with it.

[gaeilgeoir]

Thanks for the suggestion, building for an older version (V8.5.5) made it work.

I think the last time I installed fah on my machine I just built for latest, which is why I was surprised it didn't work this time. Guess I got lucky that time

Anyway, I am glad to be back and contributing my machine's idle power to something good now.

[muziqaz]

I asked, never got a go-ahead to post it as a Public Beta as there were problems with it.

Em, it is already available, and has been for a while, and is working fine on variety of systems:
https://foldingathome.org/beta/