When I try to start fahcontrol I get an error and its is the

[markfw]

I huess its all in the title, but in case you can't see, I had a perfectly running instance (7.4.4) using a 1080TI. I installed a Nvidia RTX 2080TI. I was able to install drivers using:
sudo apt install libnvidia-compute--415
then
sudo apt install libnvidia-gl--415
then
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-415

So then it looks normal. So I try run folding, and i do this:

cd /var/lib/fahclient

sudo wget http://fah-web.stanford.edu/file-releas ... c/GPUs.txt

Then I reinstall 7.5.1 over 7.4.4

And when I start fahcontrol, its stuck on "updating"...

BTW, I am not a F@H noob, I am number 25 in the all users list. I am just not real good at linux,.

Running cinnamon mint 19

HELP !

[bruce]

FAHControl cannot accomplish anything unless the FAHClient service is running. How are you starting it?

There should be a script installed in init.d which starts FAHClient in the proper directory and with the proper permissions. The service is run as the user FAHClient. You don't need to do the wget of GPUs.txt as it's included in the script.

[markfw]

If I stop the client using
sudo service FAHClient stop

Then I get connecting. If I start it using

sudo service FAHClient start

Then I am stuck at "updating".

This is the problem. I can nver get in to reconfigure it.

Here is the error: (also the reason why I re-did the sudo wget http://fah-web.stanford.edu/file-releas ... c/GPUs.txt)


The problem is that the "updating" does not allow me to configure the slots !!!! And the web app has no option for that.

[markfw]

OK, I figured it out. delete config.xml in /etc/fahclient and reboot. Then enter your config data. It worked.

[bruce]

There's already a bug report that if a GPU slot has been configured but there's no supported GPU that the slot can use, similar issues arise. I'm going to presume that you were responsible for configuring that GPU slot. By removing config.xml you forced FAHClient to configure a default config without that invalid slot. (If you don't have a supportable GPU, it won't make a slot for it and won't let you add one.)