Package Details: foldingathome 8.4.3-1

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: 180
Popularity: 0.65
First Submitted: 2007-06-28 14:55 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-08-21 01:37 (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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alucryd commented on 2020-05-09 10:13 (UTC)

@AntiComposite: Those should be created automatically by systemd, and automatically deleted when the service exits. It's working fine here, is your system up to date? Can you try creating these manually?

AntiComposite commented on 2020-05-09 02:52 (UTC)

Trying to start the service with sudo systemctl start foldingathome fails for me with chown[60820]: /usr/bin/chown: invalid user: ‘fah:fah’.

SebRut commented on 2020-05-07 15:16 (UTC) (edited on 2020-05-07 15:17 (UTC) by SebRut)

shellcheck shows "SC2206: Quote to prevent word splitting/globbing, or split robustly with mapfile or read -a" warning for the pkgver variable in the download url.

alucryd commented on 2020-04-27 12:13 (UTC)

@Wild_Penguin I was planning to move it to the nvidia unit with the next update indeed, like you said it's most likely unnecessary for any AMD GPU.

@noalwin: Nope, we're using a dynamic user, there's no need for that.

Wild_Penguin commented on 2020-04-27 07:38 (UTC)

Hi,

About the PreExec : 60 seconds delay

I hope this hack / workaround is temporary. I've decreased the default timeouts for all systemd units, since I consider anything taking tens of seconds to start as failed. Hence, foldingathome will never start with the current way. Also, being an AMD user, I can not have problems with CUDA. Maybe the delay should be added to foldingathome-nvidia instead, and have foldingathome depend on that (untill a less-hacky workaround is found)?

Just my comments.

noalwin commented on 2020-04-25 13:24 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-25 13:25 (UTC) by noalwin)

Please, add to the post install and post upgrade message that users should add the "fah" user to the "video" group (gpasswd -a fah video) or maybe the script should do it.

curtispf commented on 2020-04-24 09:11 (UTC)

Thanks @alucryd and @Superice97 - that update works for me!

alucryd commented on 2020-04-24 08:09 (UTC)

@rsa: Done.

@Superice97: Was hoping to do without, but I added it back. Thanks for the heads up.

@curtispf: Does it change anything for you?

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