Package Details: foldingathome 8.4.9-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/foldingathome.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: foldingathome
Description: A distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics
Upstream URL: https://foldingathome.org/
Keywords: fah science
Licenses: GPL-3.0-or-later
Submitter: dtw
Maintainer: PlasticSoup
Last Packager: PlasticSoup
Votes: 179
Popularity: 0.26
First Submitted: 2007-06-28 14:55 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-09 00:07 (UTC)

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SovietReimu1228 commented on 2024-08-22 14:48 (UTC)

I'll leave a note for those who are having trouble starting FAH after updating. You should do pacman -Rs foldingathome and install again. This will create the fah-client user.

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merlock commented on 2020-08-27 02:15 (UTC) (edited on 2020-08-27 02:16 (UTC) by merlock)

I think you need to add

StandardOutput=null

To the service file; otherwise the client logs to both /var/log/foldingathome/log.txt and the journal.

alucryd commented on 2020-05-26 17:48 (UTC)

@geripgeri Thought that directory existed even with no graphics card, made it optional.

geripgeri commented on 2020-05-21 06:45 (UTC)

Hey @jpkotta!

/dev/dri doesn't exist in my your system, /usr/bin/chown and /etc/foldingathome both exist.

After I added ReadWritePaths=-/dev/dri to foldingathome.service the service starts without any issue!

Thank you for your help!

jpkotta commented on 2020-05-20 20:59 (UTC)

@geripgeri: Does /dev/dri exist on your system? If not, try editing foldingathome.service to have ReadWritePaths=-/dev/dri (this should probably be changed in the package, you shouldn't need /dev/dri if you're doing CPU folding).

As for the chown, that doesn't make sense. Do /usr/bin/chown and /etc/foldingathome both exist?

geripgeri commented on 2020-05-18 13:03 (UTC)

Hey! I'm getting this error message: The system is up to date. I don't have GPU in this pc, FAH worked for me before.

systemd[1]: Starting Folding@home distributed computing client...
systemd[2846840]: foldingathome.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/dev/dri: No such file or directory
systemd[2846840]: foldingathome.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/bin/chown: No such file or directory
systemd[1]: foldingathome.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
systemd[1]: foldingathome.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Folding@home distributed computing client

What could cause this issue?

katt commented on 2020-05-16 19:35 (UTC) (edited on 2020-05-18 09:04 (UTC) by katt)

@alucryd: I realise I should've tried this before, either way it does not help. Moved back sleep to the main service and re-activated the nvidia one and I ended up having to run startx manually. (as graphical.target wasn't active)

EDIT: It's now happening with only foldingathome.service, so I guess it's the sleep command then, but it used to work before? Computers yo...

alucryd commented on 2020-05-16 08:21 (UTC)

@katt: Can you try putting the sleep command back to the foldingathome.service unit?

katt commented on 2020-05-14 19:29 (UTC) (edited on 2020-05-14 19:30 (UTC) by katt)

I've just discovered that with the foldingathome-nvidia service activated, graphical.target stays "inactive (dead)" until I've logged out and back in. This causes problems such as xorg not autostarting (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login).

This didn't happen a while back so possibly has something to do with the moved sleep command?

AntiComposite commented on 2020-05-09 15:15 (UTC) (edited on 2020-05-09 15:23 (UTC) by AntiComposite)

Yes, fully updated. After a sudo useradd fah, the service starts fine.

Correction: I found an /etc/nsswitch.conf.pacnew. My existing /etc/nsswitch.conf didn't allow systemd to control users and groups. I fixed that, removed the manually-created user, and the service started normally.

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