OS update causes FAH v7.6.21 to disable GPU [solved]

[Fldngbob]

I run a few headless machines. The OS (Debian) did an update and caused the FAH client to disable the GPU.

Some machines had issues and others did not.

On the machines with disabled GPUs, I simply reinstalled FAH v7.6.21, rebooted, restarted FAHClient, and re-enabled systemd FAHClient and all was well again.

All I could find in the log file was the following:

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15:39:28:Trying to access database...
15:39:28:Successfully acquired database lock
15:39:28:FS00:Initialized folding slot 00: cpu:6
ESC[93m15:39:28:WARNING:FS03:Disabling beta GPU slot 03: gpu:2:0.  Beta GPUs can be tested for no points by se
tting ``gpu-beta=true`` in the configuration.ESC[0m
ESC[93m15:39:28:WARNING:FS04:Disabling beta GPU slot 04: gpu:3:0.  Beta GPUs can be tested for no points by se
tting ``gpu-beta=true`` in the configuration.ESC[0m
15:39:28:WU02:FS00:Starting
15:39:28:WU02:FS00:Running FahCore: /usr/bin/FAHCoreWrapper /var/lib/fahclient/cores/cores.foldingathome.org/lin/64bit-avx-256/a8-0.0.12/Core_a8.fah/FahCore_a8 -dir 02 -suffix 01 -version 706 -lifeline 916 -checkpoint 15 -np 6
15:39:28:WU02:FS00:Started FahCore on PID 926
15:39:28:WU02:FS00:Core PID:930
15:39:28:WU02:FS00:FahCore 0xa8 started
15:39:29:WU02:FS00:0xa8:*********************** Log Started 2025-04-03T15:39:29Z ***********************

As the disabling of my GPUs, (IMHO), was caused by an OS update I did not expect to find much info in the FAH log file.

So, keeping things simple, as reinstalled the FAH v7.6.21 client and that corrected my issue. I did not look through any OS log files to locate the cause of my issue as it (my issue) may have been hardware related.

Now, I wait to the next OS update to see if it (disabling GPUs) happens again and on what hardware.