Opened 13 years ago
#1039 new Defect
boinc SEGVs if running on gluster/fuse filesystem
| Reported by: | glynreade | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Undetermined | Milestone: | Undetermined |
| Component: | Undetermined | Version: | 6.10.58 |
| Keywords: | linux segv | Cc: |
Description
I was having a problem running the boinc client on a CentOS 5.5 (64 bit) machine in that it would segfault while running the underlying application (observed with seti@home, einstein@home, lhc@home). At first I thought it was the 32/64 bit issue discussed elsewhere, but it continued after all the appropriate 32 bit libraries were installed.
Eventually I tracked it down to keeping the boinc/project files on a glusterfs filesystem (see http://www.gluster.org/). Note that glusterfs uses fuse.
Once I moved the boinc files to an ext3 filesystem, everything worked as expected. Even if this is not fixed, it is worth describing in the linux installation notes.
I have seen other oddities with glusterfs (which is probably due to its fuse nature), in particular programs that call setregid(2).
Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:52:25 EST 2011
