I\'ve detached my dual G5 from climateprediction; I cannot get any decent results at all. Every day my system downloads new work, gets up to one or two cycles and then boom. Currently I\'ve raked up 48 experiments and 14 of them ran the full course.

None of the sulphur or hadsm 4.13 experiments I\'ve been sent have produced anything. The 14 experiments that did complete where the hadsm 4.12 ones.

All sulphur experiments exit with a status of 255 after one or two cycles and persistently crash in thread 1. Excerpt from crashreporter:

Thread 1 Crashed:
0 libGL.dylib 0x92dff3e0 glDeleteTextures + 48
1 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x0001e23c graphics_thread_cleanup + 432 (crt.c:300)
2 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x00005a64 app_cleanup() + 36 (crt.c:300)
3 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x00006f58 checkBOINCStatus(bool) + 228 (crt.c:300)
4 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x000054dc mainLoop() + 76 (crt.c:300)
5 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x00004fbc worker() + 1844 (crt.c:300)
6 ...r_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin 0x0004c810 foobar(void*) + 60 (graphics_impl.C:75)
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b200 _pthread_body + 96

Weird thing is that I *never* run the visual stuff, boinc always runs in the background so why this thread is even running beats me.

hadsm 4.13 also persistently crashes in the same thread and same function.

hadsm 4.12 did run fine as long as I ran boinc via a shell script, with a ulimit -n 1024, to up the maximum open file limit to 1024 (with the default of 255 it exits with a \'no more file handles\' error).

For those interested, computer in question is 202499.

I\'ll keep monitoring the Mac forum and re-attach when the CPDN team reports that they\'ve found and fixed the problem(s).


To be complete:

MacOS 10.4.3 (but problems arose with 10.4.2 as well)
Dual PowerMac G5, 1.8Ghz
3.5GB RAM (the boinc client itself doesn\'t detect this correctly, it only reports 2GB).

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Have you installed the additional Mac application library Koen? If not it\'s on the download page and this is a direct link.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Have you installed the additional Mac application library Koen? If not it\'s on the download page and this is a direct link.

I tried after reading your message; I installed libcpdn and the latest Mac client. Install went fine, registration okay, new work was downloaded and after that an immediate crash:

<core_client_version>5.2.8</core_client_version>
<message>process exited with code 255 (0xff)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64
MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64

</stderr_txt>

So no go, still won\'t run :-((

(computer id now is 273573)

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Have you read <a href=\"http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=3358#17003\"> this</a> post by Deborah Goldsmith? Says it all, really.
However, on the bright side, there is a user running OK on a Mac Mini, and the dev team have recently aquired a Mac G5 to use for programming, instead of their slow laptop Mac.
No idea though when something will emerge from the programmers den.

Watch this space, as they say.

hadsm 4.12 did run fine as long as I ran boinc via a shell script, with a ulimit -n 1024, to up the maximum open file limit to 1024 (with the default of 255 it exits with a \'no more file handles\' error).

This was a problem in the BOINC core client, fixed in 5.2.8 or later.

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I installed BOINC 5.2.13 with all those libraries on a G4 Dual 1,25 GHz, no problems except for being really slow: 9,7 s/TS on a 1,25 GHz clock? Maybe I should try my Pentium I MMX with 133 MHz and 32 MB RAM instead? I cannot believe this code is done for Macs ...

However, what I disliked was that it is quite tricky to find out where the libraries stuff was installed to, just in case I somewhen may want to get rid of it.

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