I have 2 computers. Both ran with Linux and both ran boinc client 4.19 for some time

Now I switched from Linux to FreeBSD 5.4 on one machine and installed the BOINC client from the ports collection.

I started the client and received:
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Project prefs: using your defaults
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Host ID not assigned yet
[---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
[---] get_local_network_info(): gethostbyname failed
[---] Running CPU benchmarks
[---] Benchmark results:
[---] Number of CPUs: 1
[---] 1142 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
[---] 3132 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
[---] Finished CPU benchmarks
[---] Insufficient work; requesting more
[http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
[http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
[http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
[SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd5.4' not found
[SETI@home] Can't parse general preferences
[SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
[SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
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It's the lines "Message from server:..." and "Can't parse general preferences" which bother me. Dows this mean there is some error and the delay in downloading WUs is the result?

wobo

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Updating information:

After the 1 day delay was over I received:

[---] Insufficient work; requesting more
[SETI@home] Requesting 17277 seconds of work
[SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
[SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
[SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd5.4' not found
[SETI@home] No work from project
[SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

I looked into my profile and statistics at setiweb.ssl.berkely.edu and found out that there were 3 new computers created, all with FreeBSD as OS but all with 0 credits and 0 contacts to the server.

There's definitely something wrong.

wobo

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you do not seem to have the appropriate app_info.xml
double check that it is where it should be and that it lists the correct executable name

boinc will not ask for a new executable if that is set up properly

you do not seem to have the appropriate app_info.xml

That was one part of the answer, let's say: it was a symtom but not the cause.

Iwrote that I use FreeBSD. What I did not know: in FreeBSD the client and the actual number-crunching program are 2 separate software packages. You have to install the client first and then the work-tool.

I did that (after a cvsup of my ports collection) and now it's running and crunching numbers.

wobo

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you do not seem to have the appropriate app_info.xml

That was one part of the answer, let's say: it was a symtom but not the cause.

Iwrote that I use FreeBSD. What I did not know: in FreeBSD the client and the actual number-crunching program are 2 separate software packages. You have to install the client first and then the work-tool.

I did that (after a cvsup of my ports collection) and now it's running and crunching numbers.

wobo

ok that makes sense. i poked around the ports collection, but without BSD i couldn't make much sense out of it. good to see you up and running

I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, and I was getting the
Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd5.4' not found
message when I ran boinc.

First of all I had portinstall'd boinc-setiathome which also automatically installed the boinc client. This gave me the error message when I ran the client. I then manually cd'd to the /user/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome directory and 'make deinstall' which gives the following:


(07:29:39 ) 0 $ sudo make deinstall
===> Deinstalling for astro/boinc-setiathome
===> Deinstalling boinc-setiathome-4.07.20050601
rm: /var/db/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/app_info.xml: No such file or directory
rm: /var/db/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome: No such file or directory


then I kill the boinc-client, 'make install', which gives no build errors, and then restart the boinc-client and now everything works.

If you forget to kill the boinc-client before you reinstall (or at least when I did) the install seems to go ahead without errors but the setiathome client is not actually installed.

im, having the same problem, i have deinstalled and reinstalled and still nothing. it just geepes deffering communication for a day at a time

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