I installed 4.06 this morning on one of my work Win98SE machines and everything seems to be working. The machine has completed a work unit and gone on to the next one without issue. I will try it on my home machine tonight that is running Win98 (no SE) and see how it works there.

Thanks for your hard work. :)

> > WinME isn't bad at all. It's DOS support is somewhat crippled, but that's all

> I dont call "not bad" an OS that you can crash it with a simple C program:

My comment was on WinME versus other Win9x variants. WinME is no worse than Win98.

> int main () {
> int* a=0;
> (*a)++;
> return (0);
> }

Illustrating what? That it's stupid code on ANY system? That any Windows 9x system (and some others) will "allow" it despite the dangers?

> and when you reset the PC, you risk to loose data on disk ...

True of any system using FAT-like filesystems, not just Win9x.

Your comments say nothing about WinME specifically. Read the message I was replying to.

> Actually folks, most of the thanks goes too Walt Gribben for pointing us in
> the right place.
>
> Without his help, it could have dragged on for days.
>
> ----- Rom
> BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley

So Gents, your thx have to be directed the correct way

Many thx to Walt and to Rom and the team

If anyone disagrees, then plz let me know

Any way, since the problem have been solved, then plz, close this thread.

My humble opinion

Hi All,
I want to Thank Walt and Rom for the "Fixes we have been able to incorporate to get back online with boinc. I have windows ME and after downloading the fixes, it is running as smooth as can be. I was able to report the WU's that had finished without a hang, and although I have not received and WU's as of yet, I am waiting on the "Timer" Now, I know that we are back in Busisness.

Thank You all that were involved, from Volunteers to DEV/ADMIN.

Warm Regards,

Rocky

OK thanks a lot for fixing this problem that fast.
Seems to work even on my machine. Just sent my finished WUs and even was able to receive new ones without any problems.

> Re: -- Boinc 4.06

So, is 4.06 now considered a stable release?

Were can one find version 4.06 to download? My Win98 machine has had nothing but bad luck with 4.05 since install.

> Re: -- Boinc 4.06
>
>
>
> Rom Walton wrote:
>
> > Actually folks, most of the thanks goes too Walt Gribben for pointing us
> in
> > the right place.
> >
> > Without his help, it could have dragged on for days.
> >
> > ----- Rom
> > BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> here , here , thanks Rom and Walt Gribben
>
>
> Yes indeed Rocky , I would also like to add my voice to , all the good people
> in this thread ,
>
> and say thanks to:
>
> Rom Walton
> Walt Gribben
> DavidIr
>
> and many , many more in this thread , Community team work.
>
> Rom Walton wrote:
>
> NOTE: I would like to thank Walt Gribben for helping me by debugging this
> issue for me.
>
>
> Rom 31 Aug 2004
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> Moved the delete shared memory code to the end of the function, to
> happen right before slot directory cleanup. The previous instance of
> code
> t8hat was commented out was for the unix branch.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> The shared memory enumerator had a bug where the name it was
> enumerating wasn't the same name that was eventually locked by the start
>
> routine, this caused the client to only be able to run one application
> at
> a time
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> The shared memory enumerator was still referencing the slot
> directory number instead of the for loop iterator.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> When a process has been preempted, it's pid handle and thread handle need to
> be freed.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> Calling MapViewOfFile on Win98 automatically causes a memory leak,
> so don't call it unless we really have to.
>
>
> client/
> app_control.C
> app_start.C
> lib/
> error_numbers.h
> shmem.C, .h
>
>
>
> Rom 31 Aug 2004
>
> - Tag for 4.06 release, all platforms
> boinc_core_release_4_06
>
> --- Rom wrote: --- NOTE: I would like to thank Walt Gribben for helping me by
> debugging this issue for me.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards to all
>
> byron
>
Not much for letting this run, but where's the beef m8 ??

There have to be 1 Byron, or otherwise you are just 0.0

> Re: -- Boinc 4.06
>
>
>
> Rom Walton wrote:
>
> > Actually folks, most of the thanks goes too Walt Gribben for pointing us
> in
> > the right place.
> >
> > Without his help, it could have dragged on for days.
> >
> > ----- Rom
> > BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> here , here , thanks Rom and Walt Gribben
>
>
> Yes indeed Rocky , I would also like to add my voice to , all the good people
> in this thread ,
>
> and say thanks to:
>
> Rom Walton
> Walt Gribben
> DavidIr
>
> and many , many more in this thread , Community team work.
>
> Rom Walton wrote:
>
> NOTE: I would like to thank Walt Gribben for helping me by debugging this
> issue for me.
>
>
> Rom 31 Aug 2004
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> Moved the delete shared memory code to the end of the function, to
> happen right before slot directory cleanup. The previous instance of
> code
> t8hat was commented out was for the unix branch.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> The shared memory enumerator had a bug where the name it was
> enumerating wasn't the same name that was eventually locked by the start
>
> routine, this caused the client to only be able to run one application
> at
> a time
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> The shared memory enumerator was still referencing the slot
> directory number instead of the for loop iterator.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> When a process has been preempted, it's pid handle and thread handle need to
> be freed.
>
> - BUGFIX:
>
> Calling MapViewOfFile on Win98 automatically causes a memory leak,
> so don't call it unless we really have to.
>
>
> client/
> app_control.C
> app_start.C
> lib/
> error_numbers.h
> shmem.C, .h
>
>
>
> Rom 31 Aug 2004
>
> - Tag for 4.06 release, all platforms
> boinc_core_release_4_06
>
> --- Rom wrote: --- NOTE: I would like to thank Walt Gribben for helping me by
> debugging this issue for me.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards to all
>
> byron
>
Not much for letting this run, but where's the beef m8 ??

There have to be 1 Byron, or otherwise you are just 0.0

And look and behold I could edit my own post

And Byron

Right now I fell 100% about what BC have done. As a famuos actor said

IT WORKS FOR ME

>
> and say thanks to:
>
> Rom Walton
> Walt Gribben
> DavidIr
>
> and many , many more in this thread , Community team work.

Byron,
Thanks for the mention, but I was just one of many who helped here - the credit is all due to Rom and Walt. I am glad this appears to be behind us now :)

Rom,
I notice this fix (the update to CC 4.06) is not yet available for download from the main S@h prooject pages, and there is no mention on the main page news - should this breakthrough not be shared with everyone?


Dave

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire — William Butler Yeats

And Byron

Right now I fell 100% about what BC have done. As a famuos actor said

IT WORKS FOR ME

And Byron

Right now I fell 100% about what BC have done. As a famuos actor said

IT WORKS FOR ME

Byron
Thank you for the reminder, but I feel that pointing everyone to download the latest CC installer from the Alpha project website from inside a forum post is not really an official announcement, and some / many people will not read or follow it.
Just by $0.02

Dave
Dave

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire — William Butler Yeats