Development for LHC@home

In reply to Yeti's message of 4 Sep 2025:

1. RunTime is something with 2.200 seconds, but CPU-Time only 647 seconds or even less. Is this because of develop or is still something wrong ?

Okay, I think it is like in Life-environment, if the WU picks up something from the central-queue then it crunches this, otherwise it finishes the actual WU

So, the final question is, what to do that podman respects / uses the proxy-setting to my squid

In reply to Yeti's message of 4 Sep 2025:

... what to do that podman respects / uses the proxy-setting to my squid

See this:
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev//forum_thread.php?id=682&postid=8628#8628
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev//forum_thread.php?id=701&postid=8763

Since today Win11pro-Workstation running Docker Theory.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5116

And errors restarted...

(0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)</message>
<stderr_txt>
docker_wrapper config:
workdir: /boinc_slot_dir
use GPU: no
create args: --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --device /dev/fuse
verbose: 1
Using podman
running docker command: ps --all --filter "name=boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256_0"
command output:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMESEOMcreating container boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256_0
running docker command: images
command output:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZEdocker.io/library/almalinux 9 df3270cc8bc8 6 months ago 217 MBEOMbuilding image
running docker command: build . -t boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256 -f Dockerfile
command output:
STEP 1/6: FROM almalinux:9STEP 2/6: RUN dnf install -y https://cvmrepo.s3.cern.ch/cvmrepo/yum/cvmfs-release-latest.noarch.rpm && dnf install -y epel-release && dnf install -y libxcrypt-compat bc bzip2 lighttpd procps-ng make gcc which cvmfs bind-utils netcat zlib-devel compat-openssl11 freetype && dnf clean allAlmaLinux 9 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 01:46 Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'appstream': - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://it2.mirror.vhosting-it.com/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: it2.mirror.vhosting-it.com] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://mirror.hs-esslingen.de/Mirrors/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: mirror.hs-esslingen.de] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://almalinux.mirror.archettitechnology.it/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: almalinux.mirror.archettitechnology.it] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: linuxsoft.cern.ch] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://it1.mirror.vhosting-it.com/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: it1.mirror.vhosting-it.com] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://almalinux.mirror.garr.it/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: almalinux.mirror.garr.it] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://ftp.fau.de/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: ftp.fau.de] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for https://almalinux.schlundtech.de/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: almalinux.schlundtech.de] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://mirror.in2p3.fr/pub/linux/almalinux/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: mirror.in2p3.fr] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://alma.mirror.hyperbit.it/9.6/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: alma.mirror.hyperbit.it] - Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for https://mirrors.almalinux.org/mirrorlist/9/appstream?countme=1 [Could not resolve host: mirrors.almalinux.org]Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were triedError: building at STEP "RUN dnf install -y https://cvmrepo.s3.cern.ch/cvmrepo/yum/cvmfs-release-latest.noarch.rpm && dnf install -y epel-release && dnf install -y libxcrypt-compat bc bzip2 lighttpd procps-ng make gcc which cvmfs bind-utils netcat zlib-devel compat-openssl11 freetype && dnf clean all": while running runtime: exit status 1EOMrunning docker command: create --name boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256_0 -v .:/boinc_slot_dir --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --device /dev/fuse --log-driver=k8s-file boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256
command output:
Error: short-name "boinc__lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev__theory_2922-4896600-256" did not resolve to an alias and no unqualified-search registries are defined in "/etc/containers/registries.conf"EOMcreate command output contains 'Error'
create_container() failed: -1
2025-09-25 11:37:01 (13284): called boinc_finish(1)

Errors I have been getting (but not consistently) for Windows:

</stderr_txt>
<message>
upload failure: <file_xfer_error>
<file_name>Theory_2922-4906357-292_0_r169101361_result</file_name>
<error_code>-240 (stat() failed)</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
</message>
]]>

When I install the Client 8.2.5 I see this messages in the Event-Log:

WSL: registry open failed
[error] get_wsl_information(): Error -1

Why does the client than get the new Theory-podman-tasks from the server ?

So far I have nothing installed regarding Podman and WSL, but got these Theory-Podman-Tasks

I think that should be fixed

In reply to boboviz's message of 27 Mar 2025:

In reply to Crystal Pellet's message of 27 Mar 2025:

2. After a BOINC restart the task survives, but starts from scratch.

+1
But the wus are not so long, so the checkpoint it's a relative problem

I change my idea.
I have some wus over 10hrs and a checkpoint will be welcome!!

As a stress-test started 4 docker-Theory's shortly after each other:

lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:39:12 Starting task Theory_2922-4839703-419_0
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:39:42 Starting task Theory_2922-4760041-419_0
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:40:22 Starting task Theory_2922-4877244-419_0
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:40:57 Starting task Theory_2922-4769642-419_0

lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:49:44 Output file Theory_2922-4839703-419_0_r5617803_result for task Theory_2922-4839703-419_0 absent
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:50:14 Output file Theory_2922-4760041-419_0_r413049983_result for task Theory_2922-4760041-419_0 absent
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:50:50 Output file Theory_2922-4877244-419_0_r337469002_result for task Theory_2922-4877244-419_0 absent
lhcathome-dev 10 Dec 19:51:23 Output file Theory_2922-4769642-419_0_r1934883449_result for task Theory_2922-4769642-419_0 absent

https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3621971
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3621964
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3621946
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3621883

Not a success. With VirtualBox not a problem at all.

Edit: Waiting a bit longer after the first Theory started solves this issue.

The latest version of Podman is 5.7.1
Can we update it on our pc?