This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 7.18.1+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1
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boinc (7.18.1+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1) jammy; urgency=medium
* Fix boinc-client crash on old CPUs. (LP: #1970521)
- d/rules: Reversing -mavx for compatibility with older servers.
-- Sudip Mukherjee Fri, 29 Mar
I can confirm that boinc-client from jammy-proposed has fixed the bug
for me.
Test done:
Start a Jammy vm with "-cpu Conroe-v1".
Confirm from lscpu that avx is not present in Flags.
$ lscpu | grep Flags
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
mtrr pge
Looked at potential performance regressions of removing AVX instructions.
(Updated the SRU template sections accordingly.)
The boinc packages do not provide high-performance code, it's the boinc
_applications_ written to be run by the client and linked against the
library for API access that
** Description changed:
[ Impact ]
boinc-client is completely unusable on older CPU which does not have avx like
a Celeron CPU.
It will crash immediately if run on old CPU, but will run without any problem
on newer CPUs.
[ Test Plan ]
It should be done on both types of CPUs,
Marked bug 1988863 as a duplicate.
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Title:
[SRU] boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu
22.04
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Title:
[SRU] boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu
22.04
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debdiff attached.
** Summary changed:
- boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu 22.04
+ [SRU] boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu 22.04
** Description changed:
+ [ Impact ]
+
+ boinc-client is completely unusable on older CPU which does not have
