Hi all,
Asked this over in questions and problems and got no reply so thought I'd try here....

Been running 5.4.9 on my G5 iMac (OS X 10.4.6) for several weeks now. A few weeks ago I got the following error:

Outcome Client error
Client state Computing
Exit status -185 (0xffffff47)
Computer ID 2411694
Report deadline 21 Jun 2006 8:08:44 UTC
CPU time 0
stderr out
<core_client_version>5.4.9</core_client_version>
<message>
Couldn't start or resume: -144
</message>

A computer reboot fixed the problem but not before I'd already trashed 60 WUs. Previous to this I was getting a "Couldn't destroy shared memory: system shmctl" message every few hours but without any obvious problems. Then a few minutes ago the same problem happened again - luckily I was here and I only trashed 6 WUs. Message log reads:

Fri 2 Jun 14:45:50 2006|SETI@home|Can't create shared memory: system shmget
Fri 2 Jun 14:45:50 2006|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 20mr99aa.15250.24672.953400.3.25_3 (Couldn't start or resume: -144)
Fri 2 Jun 14:45:50 2006||Rescheduling CPU: start failed
Fri 2 Jun 14:45:51 2006|SETI@home|Unexpected state 7 for task 20mr99aa.15250.24672.953400.3.25_3
Fri 2 Jun 14:45:52 2006|SETI@home|Computation for task 20mr99aa.15250.24672.953400.3.25_3 finished

Once again a reboot seems to have fixed the problem. Any suggestions would be great - I have the full message log if anyone would like to see it. Thanks

Robert

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I have had similar errors as Robert but i am using suse 10.1 on an x84_64. this error only occured after having been run for a month or so.

what is "Unexpected state 7 for task ..." mean?