-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
Howdy howdy,
I suspect this is related to XOpenDisplay() calls failing during idle
detection (due to the Xserver being inaccessible for some reason). It
shouldn't be harming performance of the boinc-client in any way, but
I'll look into suppressing the log spam when the relevant calls fail.
I had already pushed all the debug log info to an optional,
non-default flag, but it looks like the XSS library might have a
hard-coded printf somewhere.
The "idle_detection_debug" log flag can be put in cc_config.xml file:
<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<task>1</task>
<file_xfer>1</file_xfer>
<sched_ops>1</sched_ops>
<coproc_debug>1</coproc_debug>
<idle_detection_debug>1</idle_detection_debug>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>
See
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1453
for the relevant pull request where I reinstated and improved the
XSS-based idle detection.
Cheers,
Preston Maness
On 02/04/2016 01:00 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Package: boinc-client Version: 7.6.22+dfsg-3 Severity: minor
>
> Since upgrading to boinc-client 7.6.22+dfsg-3 last night (when it
> hit testing), I've observed it to log "No protocol specified" once
> a second, except when suspended, per the log excerpt below. As far
> as I can tell, it otherwise continues to work fine, but these
> messages are getting to be a nuisance.
>
> Could you please take a look?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Feb 4 09:54:09 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol specified Feb
> 4 09:54:10 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol specified Feb 4
> 09:54:11 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol specified Feb 4
> 09:54:12 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: 04-Feb-2016 09:54:12 [---]
> Suspending computation - computer is in use Feb 4 10:04:17
> ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol specified Feb 4 10:04:17
> ghostwheel boinc[13404]: 04-Feb-2016 10:04:17 [---] Resuming
> computation Feb 4 10:04:18 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol
> specified Feb 4 10:04:19 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol
> specified Feb 4 10:04:20 ghostwheel boinc[13404]: No protocol
> specified
>
> -- Package-specific info: -- Contents of
> /etc/default/boinc-client: # This file is
> /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the #
> /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.
>
> # Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
> ENABLED="1"
>
> # Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core
> client and # all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on
> the system's # performance). SCHEDULE="1"
>
> # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of
> this user. BOINC_USER="boinc"
>
> # This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
> BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"
>
> # This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init
> script uses. # If you do not want to use the client program
> provided by the boinc-client # package, you can specify here an
> alternative client program. #BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
> BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"
>
> # Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core
> client. # Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of
> allowed options. #BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
> BOINC_OPTS=""
>
> # Scheduling options
>
> # Set SCHEDULE="0" if prefering to run with upstream default
> priority # settings.
>
> # Nice levels. When systems are truly busy, e.g. because of too
> many active # scientific applications started by the boinc client,
> there is a chance for # the boinc client not to be granted
> sufficient opportunity to check for # scientific applications to be
> alive and make the (wrong) decision to # terminate the scientific
> app. This is particularly an issue with many # apps started in
> parallel on modern multi-core systems and extra overheads # for the
> download and uploads of files with the project servers. Another #
> concern is the latency for scientific applications to communicate
> with the # graphics card, which should be low. All such values
> should be set and # controled from within the BOINC client. The
> Debian init script also sets # extra constrains via chrt on real
> time performance and via ionice on # I/O performance, which is
> beyond the regular BOINC client. It then was # too easy to use that
> code to also constrain minimal nice levels. We still # think about
> how to best distinguish GPU applications from regular apps.
> BOINC_NICE_CLIENT=10 BOINC_NICE_APP_DEFAULT=19
> #BOINC_NICE_APP_GPU=5 # not yet used
>
> # ionice classes. See manpage of ionice (1) in the util-linux
> package. BOINC_IONICE_CLIENT=3 # idle
> #BOINC_IONICE_APP_DEFAULT=3 # idle, not yet used
> #BOINC_IONICE_APP_GPU=2 # best effort, not yet used
>
>
> -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers
> testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300,
> 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures:
> i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell:
> /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via
> /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages boinc-client depends on: ii adduser
> 3.113+nmu3 ii ca-certificates 20160104 ii cdebconf
> [debconf-2.0] 0.201 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58 ii
> init-system-helpers 1.24 ii libboinc7
> 7.6.22+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libcurl3
> 7.47.0-1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-7 ii libstdc++6
> 5.3.1-7 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxss1
> 1:1.2.2-1 pn python:any <none> ii zlib1g
> 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> boinc-client recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages boinc-client suggests: pn boinc-client-fglrx
> <none> pn boinc-client-nvidia-cuda <none> pn boinc-client-opencl
> <none> ii boinc-manager 7.6.22+dfsg-3 ii
> x11-xserver-utils 7.7+5
>
> -- Configuration Files: /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
> changed: <global_preferences>
> <run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
> <run_if_user_active>0</run_if_user_active>
> <idle_time_to_run>10.000000</idle_time_to_run>
> <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour> <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
> <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
> <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
> <disk_max_used_gb>10.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
> <cpu_usage_limit>60.000000</cpu_usage_limit> </global_preferences>
>
> /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg'
>
> -- debconf information: boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: true
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----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=jDw3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
