There are some data files that are kept on the disc for several results, so cancelling workunits might not clear all files. If the start of the problem coincided with the power loss and fschk run, I guess it's really a good reason to do the a "Reset" of the project via BOINC manager, which should clear ALL project related files.
Good Luck.
BRM
okay done today. i hope that will solve my problems or i have to go through my personal nightmare: set up a fresh install.
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
If all else fails, even a series of screenshots would help :-). A backtrace would really be valuable.
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
First, which text editor are you using? If you're using a text-mode editor, such as vi or vim, then cut-and-paste won't work for you. If you're using a GUI-mode editor, such as Kate, then you might try pressing the "Ctrl-v" key combination if the regular paste command won't work.
If none of that works, then you've just found one of the idiosynchrocies about Linux. Sometimes, cut-and-paste doesn't work well between certain applications.
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
Depends on the environment (gnome/KDE etc), but the old-style X11 (mark w. left mouse key pressed, paste with middle mouse key (or pressing both keys at once with a 2-Button mouse) in any other window) should work in all cases.
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
Depends on the environment (gnome/KDE etc), but the old-style X11 (mark w. left mouse key pressed, paste with middle mouse key (or pressing both keys at once with a 2-Button mouse) in any other window) should work in all cases.
BM
I didn't know that. (Now I'm embarrassed.)
But, you're right. I just tried it to cut and paste from the command-line into vim, and it works fine.
Donald, I did know these commands, it's just that they didn't work this time. Never happened to me before. I'll try what Bernd recommends next time, although it might be a bit difficult to pull off with a touchpad ;-)
Thanks for your help everyone.
Bikeman, I didn't think of that ;-) I'll keep it in mind as a desperate measure.
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb7e56ac0 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
Cannot access memory at address 0xb7fa9d64
(gdb)
The right click/both mouse button-thing worked great in DDD but wouldn't do with Kate; I fooled my PC into pasting from DDD by locating the entry in "Klipper" (the KDE copy/paste utitility) and selecting it from there (took a bit of persuation but worked in the end). Bit lame, perhaps, but effective.
I do hope this helps... it doesn't look like very much output to me...
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb7e56ac0 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
Cannot access memory at address 0xb7fa9d64
(gdb)
OMG.
You're right, that's not helpful. Looks like the stack (or even more memory) is completely trashed.
I got one report that the problem vanished on a particular machine with a BOINC Client as old as 5.3.31. You may want to give it a try.
Well, since I'm running six projects on this machine atm, I'll have to see which ones are benchmark based before downgrading so far. But apart from that it seems to be worth a try.
What exactly does it mean that the client can't access the memory after the signal 11?
RE: There are some data
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okay done today. i hope that will solve my problems or i have to go through my personal nightmare: set up a fresh install.
Bernd, it may sound nooblike
)
Bernd, it may sound nooblike (and probably is) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the backtrace output pasted from the debugger. I select copy, try to paste it into the text editor, and nothing happens. I right click and all I get are options to clear the text. I try looking it up in the manual, nothing there. Please help, I'm lost...
RE: Bernd, it may sound
)
If all else fails, even a series of screenshots would help :-). A backtrace would really be valuable.
CU
Bikeman
RE: Bernd, it may sound
)
First, which text editor are you using? If you're using a text-mode editor, such as vi or vim, then cut-and-paste won't work for you. If you're using a GUI-mode editor, such as Kate, then you might try pressing the "Ctrl-v" key combination if the regular paste command won't work.
If none of that works, then you've just found one of the idiosynchrocies about Linux. Sometimes, cut-and-paste doesn't work well between certain applications.
RE: Bernd, it may sound
)
Depends on the environment (gnome/KDE etc), but the old-style X11 (mark w. left mouse key pressed, paste with middle mouse key (or pressing both keys at once with a 2-Button mouse) in any other window) should work in all cases.
BM
BM
RE: RE: Bernd, it may
)
I didn't know that. (Now I'm embarrassed.)
But, you're right. I just tried it to cut and paste from the command-line into vim, and it works fine.
Donald, I did know these
)
Donald, I did know these commands, it's just that they didn't work this time. Never happened to me before. I'll try what Bernd recommends next time, although it might be a bit difficult to pull off with a touchpad ;-)
Thanks for your help everyone.
Bikeman, I didn't think of that ;-) I'll keep it in mind as a desperate measure.
This is what my latest signal
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This is what my latest signal 11 looked like:
The right click/both mouse button-thing worked great in DDD but wouldn't do with Kate; I fooled my PC into pasting from DDD by locating the entry in "Klipper" (the KDE copy/paste utitility) and selecting it from there (took a bit of persuation but worked in the end). Bit lame, perhaps, but effective.
I do hope this helps... it doesn't look like very much output to me...
RE: This is what my latest
)
OMG.
You're right, that's not helpful. Looks like the stack (or even more memory) is completely trashed.
I got one report that the problem vanished on a particular machine with a BOINC Client as old as 5.3.31. You may want to give it a try.
BM
BM
Well, since I'm running six
)
Well, since I'm running six projects on this machine atm, I'll have to see which ones are benchmark based before downgrading so far. But apart from that it seems to be worth a try.
What exactly does it mean that the client can't access the memory after the signal 11?