I have 2 results reporting end-state status as "app error -6", but have not found a reference to this in searches against the message board. Am still looking for error code info, but if someone is familiar with this error, its meaning, or what I should do to fix the specific error indicated by return code -6, please reply to this thread.

Thanks,

Robert

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I'm getting them too, on all my machines. 6 or 7 in the last 2 days.

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more information on the error can be found in the details of the result (accountpage - results - result-id)
here's what mine told me:

<message> - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
SETI@home error -6 Bad workunit header
!swi.data_type || !found || !swi.nsamples
File: ..\\seti_header.cpp
Line: 194

in another thread it has been mentioned that a batch of work had been created with a 0 (zero) filesize or rather, a file with no actual work in it.
this was a serverside mishap, no user-intervention is required in this case.

FOr what it is worth, I just added this message to the Wiki ...

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Paul,

I don't know if this is of any use to you,
but it's all I have been able to recover about the app error -6

stderrdae.txt:
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 ( - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa))

stdoutdae.txt:
2005-12-15 12:22:30 [SETI@home] Starting result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 using setiathome version 418
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 ( - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa))
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Computation for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 finished

stderr out:
<core_client_version>5.2.13</core_client_version>
<message> - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
SETI@home error -6 Bad workunit header
!swi.data_type || !found || !swi.nsamples
File: ..\\seti_header.cpp
Line: 194


</stderr_txt>

Paul,

I don't know if this is of any use to you,
but it's all I have been able to recover about the app error -6

stderrdae.txt:
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 ( - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa))

stdoutdae.txt:
2005-12-15 12:22:30 [SETI@home] Starting result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 using setiathome version 418
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 ( - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa))
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
2005-12-15 12:22:31 [SETI@home] Computation for result 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137_8 finished

stderr out:
<core_client_version>5.2.13</core_client_version>
<message> - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
SETI@home error -6 Bad workunit header
!swi.data_type || !found || !swi.nsamples
File: ..\\seti_header.cpp
Line: 194


</stderr_txt>

can you look farther back in the logs to see if there is a download message indicating 0 length files?

I know I have my logs but, doing messages is pretty beyond me right now ... sigh ...

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stdoutdae.txt:
2005-12-14 18:19:41 [SETI@home] Started download of 30se04ab.503.13570.542316.13
2005-12-14 18:19:41 [SETI@home] Started download of 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137
2005-12-14 18:19:42 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded
2005-12-14 18:19:42 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded
2005-12-14 18:19:44 [SETI@home] Finished download of 22ap04ab.11574.31041.673578.137
2005-12-14 18:19:44 [SETI@home] Throughput 0 bytes/sec
2005-12-14 18:19:44 [SETI@home] Started download of 30se04ab.503.13570.542316.19
2005-12-14 18:19:46 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded
2005-12-14 18:19:49 [SETI@home] Finished download of 30se04ab.503.13570.542316.13
2005-12-14 18:19:49 [SETI@home] Throughput 61939 bytes/sec
2005-12-14 18:19:49 [SETI@home] Started download of 22ap04ab.11574.24544.784672.27
2005-12-14 18:19:50 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded

Thanks ...

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