Comments on: XgridLite

By: ed

ed — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:45:05 +0000

To anyone that posted here and didn’t see their comment accepted until just now, my apologies—I’ve been lax in sorting through spam vs. real comments for a while.

I should be able to take a look at these issues in a few weeks—if you haven’t heard from me by September, send a note then.

Beyond that, I’m interested in finding someone else to maintain the code. I’m not really doing anything with Xgrid these days.

By: emf

emf — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:31:36 +0000

This isn’t working on 10.6.x anymore. It just tries to start xgridcontrollerd, which fails, and then it goes back to indicating the grid isn’t started.

if you try to start it manually, you get the following:

xgridcontrollerd[919] : Warning: controller database could not be opened: unable to open database file
xgridcontrollerd[919] : Error: controller database “/var/xgrid/controller/datastore.db” not read
xgridcontrollerd[919] : Notice: controller failed

For some reason, it’s refusing to create an initial datastore.db file. might work if you already had an existing one, though. (I tried creating a blank one, but it the complained about sql errors. I presume it’s a sqlite file. If someone could post the schema and tables from one, we might be able to manually create the thing.)

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:22:54 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Allen was having last year. Was any solution found?

By: How to use Xgrid? Drija

How to use Xgrid? Drija — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:58:45 +0000

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By: XGrid… « Steve's Electronic Lab Notebook

XGrid… « Steve's Electronic Lab Notebook — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:22:55 +0000

[...] XGrid requires a machine to be setup as a controller (the machine the delegates the tasks to the agents and organises the returned process data, before forwarding it back to the client machine). In order to do this on a non-OS X server machine we first need to download the OS X Server Admin Tools from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL831 (version 10.5.7). Once installed the Server Admin tools are available by clicking Applications and then Server. The Xgrid Admin tool can be clicked here. This however is only a tool that administrates the controllers and jobs at the agents, once the controller is up and running (you have to choose a controller to connect to at the beginning). We therefore need to download a tool to ease the execution of the Xgrid Controller Service. For this I downloaded and installed XGridLite from http://edbaskerville.com/software/xgridlite/. [...]

By: Devin

Devin — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:34:15 +0000

This might be a dumb question but how do you know if it is working? Both of my mac are showing up when I set it up each. But there is no control panel like Xgrid. Or am I missing something? Is it just an automatic response?

By: Allen

Allen — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:15:17 +0000

this is first attempt on clean system. I’m on Snow not Snow server. Never used xgrid before as I believe it only comes w/Server version.

By: ed

ed — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:03:30 +0000

Have you been using Xgrid separately from XgridLite, or is this a first attempt on a clean system?

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:48:58 +0000

well, I install it, no prob. Go to perfs and choose “start” but it does not start. No error msgs as to why, just attempts to start, buttons go grey – inaccessible – then become black again w/ the “start” button showing it may be clicked again. That’s all.
–Allen

By: ed

ed — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:06:44 +0000

What problem are you having exactly?

–Ed