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

Look in web browser javascript console for errors.

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

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.

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.

maybe
systemctl status fah-client

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)

Please try
fah-client --info

***************************** 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

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

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

Where do I find this debug build?

dickster wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:30 pm 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.

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.

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