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Indeed, it's a little hidden in the link, but I'm using 8.3.18.

Edit: I brainfarted, it's `NoNewPrivileges` that makes the difference, not `ProtectSystem`. Editing ... done. Using an override (i.e. `systemctl edit fah-client.service`) to set NoNewPrivileges to "no" also results in the GPU working, as expected. Now, going by the systemd.exec man page th...

Further investigation, looking at the systemd unit that's supplied. It has some lines aimed at securing the system against the client causing side effects: PrivateTmp=yes NoNewPrivileges=yes ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=yes So, I rebooted first with `PrivateTmp` line commented out - no change. The...

There's absolutely something weird going on with the v8 client. I had this working, but a few months back when preparing to be utilising F@H as heating over the colder months. I then paused it and did nothing with it other than letting the service run on boot up (this is my desktop, shutdown each ni...

I was having this same problem, as of like 3/23/20, the Ubuntu links were still going to the 7.4.4 version of the Linux client. I am no Linux guru either, but I found this link: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues/issues/1273 <snip> Thanks, yup, that seems to have worked. I'll know for sure...

And of course I should note that if FAH set up a proper APT repository for the software this kind of mistake would be a lot harder to make. Automatic updates would be a free bonus.

There is a GitHub site for the Folding@home software, problem reports can be posted there, but first take a look through the known issues. I'll definitley look into that, just in general. However your report is on the 7.4.4 version, the current version is 7.5.1. Some of those dependency issues may ...

Whilst the fahclient .deb installs and runs OK (still a systemctl error on startup, but it does actually run), the fahcontrol .deb package won't install on a Debian 10 (buster) system. 08:29:14 0$ dpkg -i fahcontrol_7.4.4-1_all.deb Selecting previously unselected package fahcontrol. (Reading databas...