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One issue with Snap in Ubuntu is that this is how Firefox is enabled, so when Snap wants to do an update/refresh on Firefox, the current v8 client will stop working. (I preferred the v7 client in its own program!)

Certainly sad news for family and friends.

Thanks for sharing though, as it is always interesting to learn more about the lives of fellow Folders;
that goes for Gordon Smitheman, 7im (Timothy Braun) and PS3EdOlkkola (Edward Olkkola).

Greg (Bowman) has put a news article up today about the beta software development Beta Software.
Perhaps someone could tell him that the link to the beta software (at the top of the article) sends you to v7.6.21 for Windows ...

calxalot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:00 am The Web Control url for v8.3.4 is
https://beta.foldingathome.org

Sorted using this, thanks.

I had v8.1.18 running previously on Ubuntu 22.04.3, with 2x RTX 3070s, and have just put v8.3.4 on ... When it starts, no Folding initiates. In the Folding settings page, it detects 8 CPUs, but doesn't do anything with them, and the GPU entries are empty. The Log below seems to suggest it can see th...

Well, I finally found an update from November 2023; Update at DNDi

In Sept 2021, John Chodera put up a post on the blog about the Wellcome Trust awarding a $10M grant to seek a globally accessible and affordable antiviral pill; John Chodera's Blog Post
Any updates on this, as clinical trials were expected to be reached within a year?

I have just seen the same issue for my username on the 'stats.foldingathome.org/donor' page - something has gone awry with the official stats.

You might be having a race condition, where the client starts before another service is ready. Maybe try Restart system Verify GPU is disabled Run shell commands sudo systemctl stop fah-client sudo systemctl start fah-client See if GPU works now I did a general software update today. After, on open...

@calxalot - Thanks. I'll give that a try over the weekend ...

GPU drivers (and CUDA/OpenCL) are installed - no issues with those. The problem is the v8 client not detecting them following a machine restart. If I re-install the v8 client on re-starting the machine (without adding info or changing any Folding settings), it Folds just fine on the GPU. Note: v7 ha...

calxalot wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:53 pm How do you manually start it?
What user does it run as?

I start Firefox, enter the url for the webclient (app.foldingathome.org) and when it comes up, I hit Start Folding.
There is only one account/user of the machine, and that's me.

@toTOW - I start it manually when I turn the machine, and use a Firefox browser (as v8 is a webclient). Unfortunately, I can't 'roll back' as the the last few Ubuntu releases don't support Python 2.7 (and it is a real faff to get v7 working), hence using v8, which seems fine when its running. @ calx...

@toTOW - thanks for the info. I've added 'video' and 'render' as groups, but (following a restart) it has not overcome this issue.

Is there any error message in the log about writing to client.db ? So, following a general software update, I ran the webclient directly - this is the result (see below) - it doesn't detect the GPU and reverts to a single CPU operation. Fix - stop the client, re-install it, and it picks up Folding ...