Issue with finstall?

[dukla2000]

xxx@dukla:~/bin>
xxx@dukla:~/bin> curl -O http://ra.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/finstall
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 160k 100 160k 0 0 124k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 158k
xxx@dukla:~/bin> chmod +x ./finstall
xxx@dukla:~/bin> ./finstall smp
./finstall: line 1540: `echo_dirs_option_over-ridden': not a valid identifier
xxx@dukla:~/bin>

This is on SuSE 11, x86_64. (2.6.25.11), KDE 3.5 etc. Been folding for a while - just built a new system. somewhat linux literate but never wrote my own script so if more info needed feel free to spoonfeed me !

[Ivoshiee]

Try with:

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bash -c "./finstall smp"

[dukla2000]

Same thing - it stops immediately.

xxx@dukla:~/bin>
xxx@dukla:~/bin> bash -c "./finstall smp"
./finstall: line 1540: `echo_dirs_option_over-ridden': not a valid identifier
xxx@dukla:~/bin>

[Ivoshiee]

Same thing - it stops immediately.

xxx@dukla:~/bin>
xxx@dukla:~/bin> bash -c "./finstall smp"
./finstall: line 1540: `echo_dirs_option_over-ridden': not a valid identifier
xxx@dukla:~/bin>

Do you already have a finstall/folding scripts in that system?
Maybe you have a corrupted finstall download.
Please remove it and try again.

[dukla2000]

Maybe you have a corrupted finstall download.
Please remove it and try again.

Have tried that - done the curl at least twice, also a copy/paste direct off the webpage into an editor. always the same result.

Do you already have a finstall/folding scripts in that system?

Yes - and I guess this is the root of the problem but I dont know what artefacts I am looking for.

In short have replaced my old Sempron/SuSE 10.3 system with an X2 on SuSE 11.0. /home was preserved, otherwise I did a clean linux install so / was formatted. Before starting finstall I deleted /home/xxx/foldingathome directory (once I had finished the current wu.)

Are there some environment parameters somewhere? (Because /home/xxx/.kde was preserved)

[Ivoshiee]

Maybe you have a corrupted finstall download.
Please remove it and try again.

Have tried that - done the curl at least twice, also a copy/paste direct off the webpage into an editor. always the same result.

Do you already have a finstall/folding scripts in that system?

Yes - and I guess this is the root of the problem but I dont know what artefacts I am looking for.

In short have replaced my old Sempron/SuSE 10.3 system with an X2 on SuSE 11.0. /home was preserved, otherwise I did a clean linux install so / was formatted. Before starting finstall I deleted /home/xxx/foldingathome directory (once I had finished the current wu.)

Are there some environment parameters somewhere? (Because /home/xxx/.kde was preserved)

I suspect there are some permission issues to deal with. You likely have an old folding script in ~/foldingathome directory and that is throwing an error for you. Try to remove ~/foldingathome directory and try again with fresh finstall.

[dukla2000]

There is no directory ~/foldingathome - I deleted the whole thing before trying finstall on this hardware.

I just created a new user folding (so a completely virgin /home directory) and got exactly the same problem, which surprised me as that eliminates (I think) any artefacts from my old setup. Are there any other shell requirements that most people have as default but my virgin install may be missing?

[Ivoshiee]

There is no directory ~/foldingathome - I deleted the whole thing before trying finstall on this hardware.

I just created a new user folding (so a completely virgin /home directory) and got exactly the same problem, which surprised me as that eliminates (I think) any artefacts from my old setup. Are there any other shell requirements that most people have as default but my virgin install may be missing?

Only requirement - shell must be BASH.
To verify if you indeed have the latest finstall and downloading is OK, run md5/md5sum over the finstall script:

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ra:public_html$ md5 finstall
MD5 (finstall) = f8577182d27cf80526e255a23cfdbba9
ra:public_html$ 

[dukla2000]

I haven't got md5, but md5sum is fine

xxx@dukla:~/bin> md5 finstall
bash: md5: command not found
xxx@dukla:~/bin> md5sum finstall
f8577182d27cf80526e255a23cfdbba9 finstall
xxx@dukla:~/bin>

[Ivoshiee]

I haven't got md5, but md5sum is fine

xxx@dukla:~/bin> md5 finstall
bash: md5: command not found
xxx@dukla:~/bin> md5sum finstall
f8577182d27cf80526e255a23cfdbba9 finstall
xxx@dukla:~/bin>

Strange, but there isn't anything special at line 1540 in finstall:

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echo_dirs_option_over-ridden(){
cat << EOF

NOTE: 'dirs $DirNum' is being over-ridden since previous CPU subdirectories were found!

EOF
}

Maybe BASH has changed...
Mine is:

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[ivo@haskaa folding2]$ rpm -q bash
bash-3.2-27.fc10.x86_64
[ivo@haskaa folding2]$ 

[dukla2000]

Yup
xxx@dukla:~> rpm -q bash
bash-3.2-112.1

My install skills are mostly limited to YaST, the SuSE (RPM based, I think) package manager. It doesn't offer me any earlier versions of bash.

[dukla2000]

edited the 2 occurrences of echo_dirs_option_over-ridden to be echodirsoptionoverridden and it is running!

ps - dug out my passkey, finstall finished fine, back up and folding with both cores busy

Thanks for your patience, thanks for a great script (I have used it a couple of times before and didn't want to trust any other half-cocked install instructions!)

[Ivoshiee]

edited the 2 occurrences of echo_dirs_option_over-ridden to be echodirsoptionoverridden and it is running!

Strange, but good to hear it is working. Maybe it is the "-" mark what is confusing BASH on your system....

ps - dug out my passkey, finstall finished fine, back up and folding with both cores busy

Thanks for your patience, thanks for a great script (I have used it a couple of times before and didn't want to trust any other half-cocked install instructions!)

No problem.