Re: [boinc_dev] Mac builds in master are currently broken

On 27 January 2018 at 21:23, Christian Beer wrote: > The restart is available on the webpage: click "Show all > checks" on the PR than on "Details" next to travis-ci In the top right > corner there should be a "Restart build" button this will restart all > builds OR you

Re: [boinc_dev] Mac builds in master are currently broken

On 27 January 2018 at 18:14, Christian Beer wrote: > 1. A committer (other than Charlie or me to retain the 4 eyes principle) > needs to merge PR#2323 which contains the fix for the Mac build, this > will automatically refresh the buildcache for mac for the master

Re: [boinc_dev] server stable release issues

On 11 January 2018 at 21:59, David Anderson wrote: > 3) Assuming the cycles are independent, how should we number server > releases? > We could use the same numbering for both, but this has problems: > - A sequence of releases in one part would cause gaps in the release >

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 7.8.5 for Mac

unning the screensaver has always had some effect on task run times, > since it is an additional process. That is why the default is to go to a > blank screen after several minutes. > > Cheers, > --Charlie > > > On Jan 12, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Juha Sointusalo <juha.sointus...@

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 7.8.5 for Mac

On 12 January 2018 at 13:38, Charlie Fenton wrote: > This allows older project graphics apps to be displayed by the Mac > screensaver under OS 10.13 High Sierra, though at a slower frame rate than > project graphics apps which have been relinked with the BOINC graphics

Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

On 16 November 2017 at 23:04, Kevin Reed wrote: > That makes sense. Thanks for letting me know. Has there been a decision > about when BOINC will stop supporting Windows XP? > David said recently, somewhere can't remember where, that he would like that XP is still

Re: [boinc_dev] Build Windows Client

On 15 November 2017 at 23:40, Kevin Reed wrote: > The dependencies included in the 7.8.2 client version appear to be newer > than the ones in the boinc_depends_win_vs2013 repository so I was wondering > if there was a different source. > I believe there was some problem with

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux build issues

On 16 November 2017 at 21:28, Kathryn Marks wrote: > I've tried to install SSL through the package manager (I'm, not fluent in > apt-get). I found a old post on the boinc message boards that someone > solved the problem by installing

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

On 6 November 2017 at 10:17, Laurence wrote: > Hi Jacob, > On 05/11/17 10:14, Jacob Klein wrote: > > David / Juha / Rom: > > I have concluded my testing (took about 6 hours), and 26200 has some serious > problems! > > Attached is a .zip of my full results, across my

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

On 5 November 2017 at 22:22, Jacob Klein wrote: > Maybe Juha gave hints, not sure. > Other than making sure the source tree is up to date and full rebuild, not much hints. -Juha ___ boinc_dev mailing list

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

On 5 November 2017 at 11:14, Jacob Klein wrote: > David / Juha / Rom: > > I have concluded my testing (took about 6 hours), and 26200 has some > serious problems! > There seems to be something wrong in the vboxwrapper David built. I can reproduce the problems with it. I

Re: [boinc_dev] Small tweak to next release would be appreciated

On 4 November 2017 at 21:11, Chris Raisin wrote: > All other switches of view keep the BOINC Manager on the screen currently > in use, only switching to either > > “Simple View” or “Advanced View” sends the Manager careering back to the > Main Screen. If this switch of

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

On 4 November 2017 at 16:27, Jacob Klein wrote: > Rom has a checkin to fix the tlb to use the v5.2.0 release version instead > of a pre-release version. > I think it needs merged. > It is located here: > https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2198 > > Could somebody please

Re: [boinc_dev] Small tweak to next release would be appreciated

I don't think that having a setting for everything makes good software. It tends to be an awful experience to try to configure a software that has a hundred different settings. I would prefer a software that automatically does the right thing. Since the Manager already saves the window size and

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] 7.8.2 released

it and it should be good to release next week. -Juha On 30 September 2017 at 01:10, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: > At this point master has lots of fixes and nothing obviously destabilizing. > Should we go for a 7.10 release rather than 7.8.3? > -- D > > On 9/

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] 7.8.2 released

Please include also the fix to the non stop account manager contacts. There has been a few questions about it as well. -Juha On 29 September 2017 at 10:08, Richard Haselgrove < r.haselgr...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Could you please include your > > client: eliminate possible buffer overflow in

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 28 September 2017 at 10:02, Charlie Fenton wrote: > But you are correct that my proposed change may be useful only for the > default screensaver graphics app (boincscr), which should never have > multiple instances running simultaneously. > I think the default

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

wrote: > Yes, I’ll probably disable that. > > > On Sep 27, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Charlie Fenton <charl...@ssl.berkeley.edu> > wrote: > > > > On Sep 27, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Juha Sointusalo <juha.sointus...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I did see that the

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 27 September 2017 at 23:39, David E Kim wrote: > Thanks for running these tests! > > So is it a windows only issue? It appears so for R@h. > Yep. Who is responsible for the BOINC client releases? > David Anderson. -Juha

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 27 September 2017 at 22:49, Juha Sointusalo <juha.sointus...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed 7.8.2 a few minutes ago to make sure I can see the bug with > that version. It will take about one hour to get results. > Yep, it's the bug in 7.8.2. A Rosetta task exits and client

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 27 September 2017 at 01:17, David E Kim wrote: > Would a reversion or fix to the BOINC client be the best option to save > wasted computing and bandwidth? If indeed there is a bug? > I added Rosetta to my Windows host earlier today and run it on self built

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 27 September 2017 at 00:47, David E Kim wrote: > But the errors only recently started to occur consistent with our recent > app release. > Yep. And 7.8.2 was just released three weeks ago just to muddy things. So it is a boinc client issue and not a boinc api issue?

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 26 September 2017 at 23:59, David E Kim wrote: > Ok, if that’s the case maybe it is related to using the same “prog_name”. > That definitely wouldn’t help the situation. > > I’ll test that change. Thanks! > That could help at start while you still have tasks for both

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

Windows only, BOINC version 7.8.2 only? And it's boinc_graphics_make_shmem() that fails? If it's 7.8.2 it looks like yet another case of using dirty slot directories. The shared memory segment's name that is really used contains the number of the slot directory. If the segment already exists

Re: [boinc_dev] Increase in errors on Windows clients related to shared memory

On 26 September 2017 at 20:55, David E Kim wrote: > failed to create shared mem segment: minirosetta Size: 25001672 > Are you trying to create 25 GB shared memory segment? -Juha ___ boinc_dev mailing list

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.10 client release

On 18 September 2017 at 00:47, David Anderson wrote: > Master has a number of improvements relative to 7.8.2, > so I'd like to make a release branch and start testing soon. > > Is there any work in progress that I should wait for? > I broke client's logging and I'd like

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC and NAT64

On 17 August 2017 at 12:18, Jord van der Elst wrote: > HI all, > > On the BOINC forums a user asks the following: > *** > Has anyone tried using BOINC in a NAT64+DNS64 network? I've moved my laptop > to such network (after previously using it in IPv4-only and dual-stack >

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 12 August 2017 at 00:50, David Anderson wrote: > I'm building a Win 7.8.1; > I backported only the GUI RPC-related changes, > because they fixed crashes that I personally saw. > The bug in boinc_file_exists() is regression since 7.6.33 and can cause bad results (a

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 4 August 2017 at 16:12, Oliver Bock <oliver.b...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > On 04/08/17 14:39 , Juha Sointusalo wrote: > > I think there is one benefit from having a new, empty directory for > > building release versions. You can be certain that the build will not > > i

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 4 August 2017 at 14:31, Oliver Bock wrote: > On 04/08/17 12:10 , Richard Haselgrove wrote: > > The only reasons I can see for creating a new directory are: > > To create clean build folders for the development tools to work in > > Yes, but even that is not necessary.

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 4 August 2017 at 14:53, Laurence wrote: > However the corresponding link for 7.8.1 does not exist > > https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/archive/client_release/7.1/7.8.1.tar.gz > > I would need this link so that I can start the Fedora build and test > process. > 7.8.1 doesn't

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

There's also the matter of Linux version which doesn't exists at the moment. There's one user who compiled 7.8.0 himself and immediately found two bugs in it. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11719=79576 (Although the bugs existed in earlier releases too.) Christian has some

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 3 August 2017 at 23:17, Vitalii Koshura wrote: > I guess it would be better to release without new version check because > now I'm making some changes around this and I'm realising that it would be > better to make this feature if a different way and this will

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 3 August 2017 at 22:35, Juha Sointusalo <juha.sointus...@gmail.com> wrote: > and another PR which I'll make soon > And that became #2008 "lib: fix boinc_file_exists() on Windows". -Juha ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

On 2 August 2017 at 05:11, Charlie Fenton wrote: > Are there any other changes in GIT master that should be ported into the > 7.8 branch before we tag and build BOINC 7.8.1 and release it for alpha > testing? This command lists commits that are in master but not in

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Disappearing BOINC Icon in System Tray (7.7.2) Requiring Manual Restart on Boot-Up

On 4 July 2017 at 19:33, Richard Haselgrove <r.haselgr...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Yes, as just reported - but you need to be running a build later than .479 > for that to work. > > > On Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 17:19, Juha Sointusalo <juha.sointus...@gmail.com> >

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Disappearing BOINC Icon in System Tray (7.7.2) Requiring Manual Restart on Boot-Up

On 4 July 2017 at 17:54, Richard Haselgrove wrote: > I'm working through the same tests - currently downloading June '17 > cumulative security patch. > But I'm seeing no BOINC Manager icon in the system tray - either with a > previous homebuild, or with v7.8.0 > But

[boinc_dev] boinc web: project list bugs

Hi http://boinc.berkeley.edu/project_list.php crashes with HTTP 500. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Platform details popup doesn't work. Seems like it needs the same change as project details popup. W3C validator reports Stray end tag ul, line 354. The page loads two different popup

Re: [boinc_dev] [BOINC/boinc] 341001: lib: remove safe_copy(); not used, generated compi...

On 4 January 2017 at 02:24, Artem Vorotnikov wrote: > For the record, strdup() is *not* standard, it is a GNU extension and > not part of ANSI/ISO C. > It is in POSIX. MSVC knows it as _strdup() . -Juha ___ boinc_dev mailing list

Re: [boinc_dev] [BOINC/boinc] 341001: lib: remove safe_copy(); not used, generated compi...

On 3 January 2017 at 17:13, Christian Beer wrote: > So the safe_copy() > function serves two purposes. It copies a string into a new char array > to make it modifiable and usable outside of the string context. > Putting aside the bigger issues for a moment. The next

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

On 8 December 2016 at 10:26, Jord van der Elst wrote: > This doesn't look good on my mobile browser, Dolphin. > Is it still bad or was it just a temporary glitch? I could understand that the Post view would change but there isn't anything obviously wrong in the main index page

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

With all the layout and colour updates how about a fresh new set of icons? Einstein is using symbols from Font Awesome. I think they look very nice. The symbols Einstein is using are: new posts - fa-star-o sticky - fa-thumb-tack locked - fa-lock BOINC's forum code uses a few symbols Drupal

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

On 11 November 2016 at 23:10, David Anderson wrote: > Please send me comments/feedback. > Ok, pre-formatted text stretching table cells and allowing other text to go off-screen. Tables that have pre-formatted text need to be fixed to 100% width: width: 100%;

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

On 11 November 2016 at 23:10, David Anderson wrote: > > Please send me comments/feedback. > Here's a few more: - Buttons have various styles. If we decide Reply and Quote buttons to be what all buttons should be then at least these have different style: Sort (thread

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

On 28 November 2016 at 21:20, David Anderson wrote: > I noticed that, and was unable to fix it. > > The Bootstrap css (both the standard one and the dark one I'm using) > indicate links by making them bold (no underline). > I don't know why we're getting underlines. > >

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

On 11 November 2016 at 23:10, David Anderson wrote: > I revised the BOINC web code (PHP) to use Bootstrap CSS > > Please send me comments/feedback. > Collected from forums: - Font size of quoted text is larger than normal text. I see that you adjusted it for Seti Main

Re: [boinc_dev] Fwd: Re: 'client_state.xml' : GPU info for workunit/result

On 27 November 2016 at 17:20, Jean Philippe EIMER wrote: > > I agree, I also noticed has the info. > But, the info is not in or . > You need to use app_name, app_version, platform and plan_class quadruplet to identify an app version. Workunit has app_name and app_version,

Re: [boinc_dev] Bootstrap status

On 26 November 2016 at 00:05, David Anderson wrote: > I'm pretty much done with changing the BOINC web code to use Bootstrap. > > This is on Github in a branch called "bootstrap". > Any objections to merging this into master? > I think it would be best to give people

[boinc_dev] Join button when logged in

I already have an account at Seti@home. In fact, I'm already logged in to the web site. When I go to their homepage there is a big Join Seti@home button. If I click that button I'm taken to a page that at first gives instructions for new volunteers. A tad silly. I think it would be better if the

Re: [boinc_dev] 4th Gen BOINC credit system

On 15 August 2016 at 01:44, David Anderson wrote: > 2) We need a simulator that models credit calculations for various > scenarios > (synthetic, or based on trace data from a project). > Such a simulator would help identify the problems with the current system, > or would