I have a Slak linux box that I used to run setiathome on, but boinc keeps telling me"FATAL: kernel too old". Spec says upwards of 2.2.14 should be ok, I'm on 2.4.26. Anyone have any idea on this?

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Which BOINC version are you using?
Did you get it from your package manager or from Berkeley?

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Downloaded from Berkley, http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php, using 5.10.45.

Output looks like this, where it hangs and repeats:

16-Nov-2008 15:34:27 [SETI@home] Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
16-Nov-2008 15:34:29 [SETI@home] Started download of 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151
16-Nov-2008 15:34:32 [SETI@home] Finished download of 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151
16-Nov-2008 15:34:33 [SETI@home] Starting 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151_0
16-Nov-2008 15:34:33 [SETI@home] Starting task 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
FATAL: kernel too old
16-Nov-2008 15:34:34 [SETI@home] Computation for task 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151_0 finished
16-Nov-2008 15:34:34 [SETI@home] Output file 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151_0_0 for task 12oc08ab.8246.16023.16.8.151_0 absent
16-Nov-2008 15:35:35 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 99360 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
16-Nov-2

Version info:
root@goofymail3:/home/georgec/BOINC# more /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004

I get the feeling I'm missing something simple and overly-obvious.

GeorgeC

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I don't know anything about linux versions/brands, but you could try to run setiathome_enhanced version 5.27 instead of 6.03. I was forced to do so, because windows NT4 is no longer supported.

See this thread at the SETI Message boards. I know, it's about windows, but the procedure should be quite the same for unix (my annotations there too :-).

Gruß,
Gundolf

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