Ever since 'upgrading' to BOINC 4.07, after a WU upload completes I get the following msgs:

SETI@home - 2004-09-12 03:12:36 - Result 05my04aa.9306.9633.411082.120_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
SETI@home - 2004-09-12 03:12:36 - You may need to restart BOINC to finish this result

Prior to the BOINC upgrade, the need to restart BOINC to continue on WU's did not exist.

What should I do to eliminate this problem?

Machine specs: Intel P4 2.4 GHz; 512 MB ram; XP home, SP2

The machine finishes a WU in a little over 3 hrs - and having to manually restart the application with this frequency is undesirable.

Another question - How / can these questions be sent to the BOINC / Seti 'official' support personnel?

Thanks in advance for any reply.

Doug

2 ideas come to mind....downgrade to 4.05 since anything above that is still in Alpha testing. orrrr just leave it alone and see if it picks back up again.
There are some reports that it will do just that if left alone!

Are you on dial up, and were you connected when the WU completed?

Hi Doug
I have the same problem as you, although I can't offer a cure a good
work around seems to be to disable network access as the problem occures
when the client contacts the server. you can then connect manualy once a day
or whenever is convienient and upload them all at once, This should allow a new work unit to start straight affter the finnished one.

Good luck M4rtyn

ps you can't conntact anyone from boinc directly you just have to hope
sombody might be looking when you have problem, and for that you'll need
a lot of luck. Bye

The official BOINC client for S@H is only this:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php
All others from other project or Beta Test program are at your risk.
Problem encountered are without support from S@H

> The official BOINC client for S@H is only this:
> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php
> All others from other project or Beta Test program are at your risk.
> Problem encountered are without support from S@H

The "official" 4.05 release exhibits the same problem...

Heffed,

Thanks to you and the others for the replies.

Yes - I am on dial-up and have not disabled Network access.

With the PC offline, the msg log reveals the following:

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:03:16 - Computation for result 05my04aa.7961.16785.984656.220 finished

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:03:16 - Starting result 05my04aa.7961.16785.984656.169_1 using setiathome version 4.03

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:03:51 - Started upload of 05my04aa.7961.16785.984656.220_1_0

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:03:51 - Result 05my04aa.7961.16785.984656.169_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:03:51 - You may need to restart BOINC to finish this result

SETI@home - 2004-09-14 23:04:00 - Finished upload of 05my04aa.7961.16785.984656.220_1_0

The cessation of calculation appears to occur when the PC is connected, completing an upload.

I will now disable BOINC network access and see what happens.

Typical WU process time is just under 4 hr.

Interesting to note I also get the following msg when starting BOINC (which has been rather frequently):

--- - 2004-09-14 21:47:57 - Can't load "boinc.dll", will not be able to determine idle time

What does this mean? Any real problem(s) caused?

Thanks again to everyone that replied!

Regards,

Doug

> Are you on dial up, and were you connected when the WU completed?
>
> <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=sah&userid=91863">
>

Doug-h wrote that:
"Prior to the BOINC upgrade, the need to restart BOINC to continue on WU's did not exist"
so probably with 4.05 he havent the problem.
I run 4.05 and I never saw this.

> What should I do to eliminate this problem?

No idea.

I'm running V4.06 & have had that problem with about 3 results, but would have easily crunched 100+ others with no problem.

Grant
Darwin NT.