Hi,

I tried the Seti/Boinc Client today on my amd64-gentoo box, but it fails every time with "Message from server: platform 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' not found". Is there a known fix or workaround? Why should there be amd64 version if the Boinc server cannot handle amd64 platforms?

I'm using the gentoo version "sci-misc/boinc-4.32".

I also tried the the generic-linux-client from the seti website. It always exits with "Unrecoverable error for result $packagename (process exited with code 127 (0x7f))".

thx for your help,
Bommel

Don´t use that ebuild ít´s far to old and broken (building boinc is just one thing you need a client too).

try one of the clients ned slider build @ http://www.pperry.f2s.com/

regards
Crunch3r

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Don´t use that ebuild ít´s far to old and broken (building boinc is just one thing you need a client too).

try one of the clients ned slider build @ http://www.pperry.f2s.com/

Thx for your help, Crunch3r! I tried the newest Client from www.pperry.f22.com, but the problem remains the same. Whenever the Client want to fetch new work, the server tells me, that it doesn't know my platform and delays for 1 day :(.

Any suggestions?

Don´t use that ebuild ít´s far to old and broken (building boinc is just one thing you need a client too).

try one of the clients ned slider build @ http://www.pperry.f2s.com/

Thx for your help, Crunch3r! I tried the newest Client from www.pperry.f22.com, but the problem remains the same. Whenever the Client want to fetch new work, the server tells me, that it doesn't know my platform and delays for 1 day :(.

Any suggestions?

After downloading and unpacking the boinc client you need to put the setiathome client into the folder "projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu" wich is located in your boinc directory.

It´s important to put the file app_info.xml into "projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu" ! It contains the name of the setiathome client to use with boinc.

OR if you don´t want to try any more use this one -->

http://www.bm-makler.de/setiathome/Boinc.tar.bz2

Just create a folder "/opt/boinc" and extract the files into there. Attach to the project and that´s it ;)



regards
Crunch3r

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Thx again, this solution works for me :)

I got this exact same problem when I tried the client on FreeBSD from the ports collection!

Anybody help?

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I used to have the same problem . Here is the solution I found:

1. Detach the project
2. Attach the project again and exit the client immediately (don`t wait until it tries to download any workunits) !
3. Put a copy of your freshly compiled setiathome client in the ../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder.
4 Create an app_info.xml file within the same folder.

Here is an example of the contents of my app_info.xml file (change it according to your needs):



setiathome


setiathome_4.07.3a_amd64-fftw3-static-pc-linux-gnu



setiathome
407

setiathome_4.07.3a_amd64-fftw3-static-pc-linux-gnu




setiathome


setiathome_4.07.3-athlon-xp-fftw3-static-pc-linux-gnu



setiathome
470

setiathome_4.07.3a_amd64-fftw3-static-pc-linux-gnu




setiathome


setiathome_4.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu



setiathome
402

setiathome_4.07.3a_amd64-fftw3-static-pc-linux-gnu





5. Restart the client (Make sure that the permissions of your boinc folder are set correctly.

6. Have fun !

I found this help on the download site of boinc. There click on "download executables from a third party site" and then on "Seti-Linux" !

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Look at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=18923, there is a solution for the "Error 127" described.

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