There are no child processes to wait for. (0x80) - exit code 128 (0x80)

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Message 322585 - Posted: 1 Jun 2006, 17:31:59 UTC

I keep getting this error. I've just installed the latest BOINC pkg, the PC <2447802> is connected as localhost and attached to 1 SETI@home project. Any ideas what is wrong????
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Message 322641 - Posted: 1 Jun 2006, 18:58:44 UTC

Microsoft KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=156484 talks about this error.

It just says that a service starting a console procress does not know when the process ends premuturely. It states one way to find premature ended console processes is to issue a GetExitCode command. This command will then return error 128 (no child process found) if the process is not running.

So it looks like BOINC has detected that the process is not running, but does not know why.

I take it you installed BOINC as a service?
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Message 322680 - Posted: 1 Jun 2006, 20:01:30 UTC - in response to Message 322641.  

Microsoft KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=156484 talks about this error.

It just says that a service starting a console procress does not know when the process ends premuturely. It states one way to find premature ended console processes is to issue a GetExitCode command. This command will then return error 128 (no child process found) if the process is not running.

So it looks like BOINC has detected that the process is not running, but does not know why.

I take it you installed BOINC as a service?


I booted the PC and BOINC starts automatically but I don't see it listed in the services window. Should I? As BOINC??

I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow since all my server requests are being refused now, because I've exceeded my daily work quota of 37.
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Message 322710 - Posted: 1 Jun 2006, 20:32:09 UTC - in response to Message 322680.  

If you never installed BOINC as a service, then no, you shouldn't see it in Services.msc

Did you install anything else lately? Windows Update?
Were you using graphics at that moment? Did you pause any result while using graphics?

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Message 322766 - Posted: 1 Jun 2006, 21:22:05 UTC - in response to Message 322710.  

If you never installed BOINC as a service, then no, you shouldn't see it in Services.msc

Did you install anything else lately? Windows Update?
Were you using graphics at that moment? Did you pause any result while using graphics?

Nope. Only thing I can think of is, I'm pretty sure that I didn't reboot after installing BOINC. That might be all it needed. I noticed that it put up a screen saver (of course it's idle since it has no work yet) which I did not see before. Let's see what happens when it gets some real work to do. Thanks for your help.

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Message 323594 - Posted: 2 Jun 2006, 18:50:12 UTC - in response to Message 322710.  

If you never installed BOINC as a service, then no, you shouldn't see it in Services.msc

Did you install anything else lately? Windows Update?
Were you using graphics at that moment? Did you pause any result while using graphics?


I'm still getting the "no child processes to wait for" error. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling BOINC. Should it be installed as a service?? If so, how is that done?

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Message 323623 - Posted: 2 Jun 2006, 19:23:40 UTC - in response to Message 323594.  

If you want to install BOINC as a service, that's an option in the BOINC installer. Look here to see which screen it's on.

But I sent off this error to the developers email list, to find some people to try to reproduce it. I couldn't. Maybe that someone out there has more luck. Someone over on the Einstein project has exactly the same problem, and since I couldn't help him either, yet two with the exact same error in one week is a bit too much for me, I look elsewhere for help. It may well be a bug in Boinc 5.4.9

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Message 326077 - Posted: 4 Jun 2006, 12:55:33 UTC

FiSH, something came up to try: Make sure you install the latest DirectX 9.0c updates. Reboot after that and return to crunching. See what that does.

You can get it through Windows Update.
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Message 327736 - Posted: 5 Jun 2006, 18:47:40 UTC - in response to Message 326077.  

FiSH, something came up to try: Make sure you install the latest DirectX 9.0c updates. Reboot after that and return to crunching. See what that does.

You can get it through Windows Update.


I did have an older version of DirectX and have now got the update. I'll post result tomorrow.

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Message 327816 - Posted: 5 Jun 2006, 19:54:46 UTC

Thank you. I can't wait. :)
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Message 329218 - Posted: 6 Jun 2006, 23:50:30 UTC - in response to Message 327816.  

Thank you. I can't wait. :)

Looks like it's working now. I guess it was the old version of DirectX.

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