exited with zero status but no 'finished' file Why Does This Happen Repeatedly: "exited with zero status but no 'finished' file"???

Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file Why Does This Happen Repeatedly: "exited with zero status but no 'finished' file"???

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LarryB56 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 22 Apr 02 Posts: 73 Credit: 4,218,450 RAC: 397	Message 75601 - Posted: 31 Jan 2005, 10:13:46 UTC
	On Many of my Macs, I get the following: 2005-01-30 19:32:33 [SETI@home] Finished upload of 30ja04aa.12489.20320.753390.113_3_0 2005-01-30 19:32:33 [SETI@home] Throughput 104863 bytes/sec 2005-01-30 19:33:04 [SETI@home] Result 30ja04aa.12489.20320.753390.156_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file 2005-01-30 19:33:04 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project. 2005-01-30 19:33:04 [SETI@home] Restarting result 30ja04aa.12489.20320.753390.156_1 using setiathome version 4.02 After several occurrances of such messages, I will "reset" the project. THEN it will happen AGAIN!!! Howcum??? Something I can do to stop this? Larry ____________ LarryB56
	ID: 75601 ·

ursmed Send message Joined: 30 Jun 01 Posts: 4 Credit: 7,971,237 RAC: 6,503	Message 75868 - Posted: 1 Feb 2005, 22:59:36 UTC
	same here... im using OSX.2.8 whats your version? any solution/hint? ____________
	ID: 75868 ·

LarryB56 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 22 Apr 02 Posts: 73 Credit: 4,218,450 RAC: 397	Message 75949 - Posted: 2 Feb 2005, 10:18:46 UTC - in response to Message 75868.
	> same here... > im using OSX.2.8 > whats your version? > > any solution/hint? > I'm running OSX.3.7 on all the Macs. How did you get OSX.2.8 to run? I have been unable to do it... That's another thing, though. Thanks; ____________ LarryB56
	ID: 75949 ·

Martin P. Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 282 Credit: 10,451,432 RAC: 9,218	Message 76769 - Posted: 5 Feb 2005, 10:09:52 UTC
	This problem is well know for months. On my dual processor Macs almost every fourth WU ends with this message (always the same processor!). Nobody seems to be interested in this topic though, although it does cost lots of credit. One example here (My machine is the one that claimes 16.46): http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=9083091. This WU was at 12,000 seconds when the WU from the other processor finished. I received the message "...exited with zero status but no 'finished' file" and the WU started calculating from 0 seconds again. Percentage and scientific output is not affected by this, just the total time. So, instead of 19,777 seconds my computer calculated with only 7777 seconds and therefore the claimed credit is less than half of what it should be. According to the rules for credits the second lowest claimed credit will be given to all users who returned a valid result. In this case all users will loose appr. 25 credit points due to this error. ____________
	ID: 76769 ·

Questions and Answers : Macintosh : exited with zero status but no 'finished' file Why Does This Happen Repeatedly: "exited with zero status but no 'finished' file"???