Posts by old_user196966

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : \'boincmgr\' received an X Window System error (Message 34228) Posted 6 Jul 2008 by old_user196966 Post: Try to shutdown linux manually \'shutdown -h now\' from a shell (GNOME or x-term) Make sure you have closed the client. It\'s not harder to shutdown this way.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : \'boincmgr\' received an X Window System error (Message 34224) Posted 5 Jul 2008 by old_user196966 Post: BOINC can be run with or without X-window in SUSE 10.3. I do it all the time. From a X-term or GNOME terminal, you can run a \'shutdown -H now\' when x-windows stops, do a \'ps -aux \| grep boinc\' and see if you have 2 tasks, one for the grep and one for boinc. That isolates the problem to the x-windows. Reboot then try to run boinc from x-term. \'cd /root/BOINC\' or whatever directory boinc is located \'./boinc\' or better \'./boincmgr\' thats dot-forward-slash - boinc is not a shell program. I have a problem, again. BOINC didn\'t work properly on my SUSE-linux and didn\'t show the graphics. After a model-crash I decided to reinstall BOINC. Before the reinstall I had a problem with linux (and still have), it doesn\'t want to shut down and I have to switch off the computer by force. Then after 2 such \"shut-downs\" X Window got damaged and I had to install the Graphics-Driver again. After that BOINC-Manager didn\'t work any more: The program \'boincmgr\' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was \'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)\'. (Details: serial 557 error_code 11 request_code 146 minor_code 5) ... Now I still can\'t get BOINC-Manager to work. I have already deleted everything from the BOINC-folder and reinstalled it. BOINC-Manager still shows the same error. What can I do?
3) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : BOINC Not Installing in OpenSuse 10.3 - libc.so problem (Message 34222) Posted 5 Jul 2008 by old_user196966 Post: You are getting GLIB errors. Most likely glib is not current or incompatible with what BOINC is using. Did you try to do a YAST update recently? Never mind the distro, the libs may be old.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Windows Vista update & BOINC 5.10.28 possible error (Message 31725) Posted 15 Dec 2007 by old_user196966 Post: let me try to summarize a few years in this O/S wars. In 2005, I installed Redhat Linux - Fedpora Core 6. I got a cd from one the official RH Reseller. I installed as a dual boot on an old machine - Dell - Intel - 733 mHZ - 512mb ram - 10 Mb hard disk, and and a 512MB usb drive (don\'t go here get a big hd drive if affordable). This configuration is still working well. I have completed multiple climate projects on a 7 year old \'obsolete\' machine. Obsolescence is in the mind of Bill Gates. Regardless of which Linux verion or distribution, I advise you pay the penny to the provider the first time. Get the CD!!! I paid $10 to the distibution provider. This is pennies on the dead man\'s eye compared to the $300 plus paybable to Microsoft. !! This mail is composed on SUSE V10 - XP Dual boot. I recommmend both. I still love and use Fedora Core 6/
5) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : One Planet (Message 31722) Posted 15 Dec 2007 by old_user196966 Post: Let\'s face it. When it comes to economics, we are all nationalists or indivdualists ( except for the remaining leninists, fascists and their comtemporary coprorate supporters). But when it comes to the planet we are all trans-nationalists. If anyone believes otherwise, I would ask why you would inflate your local electric utility bill. The exercise we undertake is about science, or the the quixotic pursuit thereof. I want to keep that scientific focus, but alas, I am so distracted. So I really have to wonder about these \"teams\". I am on one team for Linux and another for the coporate machines I possess utilizing the operating system from Redmond Washington, USA. The one team, which assuredly must win is the human race and the other life forms on the planet deserving a fighting chance devoid of human interference. If there are like-minded, remaining members of my species, or what was once loosely called \"mankind\", pleae affirm or object. Burton Leed