Hi

After downloading the 4.05 release of BOINC from the SETI@Home webpage last night
I have finally managed to connect and download the following software and work.

setiathome_4.03_windows_intelx86.pdb
setiathome_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe
04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37

Only for the following to happen a couple of minutes in to the work... any ideas?

SETI@home
- 2004-08-30 20:35:49 - Starting result 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37_2 using setiathome version 4.03
- 2004-08-30 20:42:56 - Aborting result 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37_2: exceeded disk limit: 503841.000000 > 500000.000000
- 2004-08-30 20:42:56 - Unrecoverable error for result 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37_2 (Maximum disk usage exceeded)
- 2004-08-30 20:42:59 - Computation for result 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37 finished

My disk space & memory preferences were the default settings and my hdd has plenty of free space.

Better still, on re-connecting and trying to get more work, the following happens...
- 2004-08-30 20:45:09 - Insufficient work; requesting more
- 2004-08-30 20:45:09 - Requesting 12832 seconds of work
- 2004-08-30 20:45:09 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
- 2004-08-30 20:45:11 - Started upload of 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37_2_0
- 2004-08-30 20:45:14 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
- 2004-08-30 20:45:14 - No work from project
- 2004-08-30 20:45:14 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
- 2004-08-30 20:45:23 - Finished upload of 04my04aa.2277.16720.378392.37_2_0

Running SETI@Home Classic again - it works.

Thanks.

Stinky, I won't pretend to know what it really happening here, but in the last few hours it seems many users have reported all kinds of bugs w/BOINC v.4
this one seems to be the most extreme:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=3369

keep reading for updated information and I agree - use the classic version for now. The old SETI page states that the work performed by client 3.08 is still valid to the project

Maximum disk usage is a circuit breaker designed to keep people from spending a large amount of time crunching a WU that is too noisy to produce any result at all.

Thanks.

I tried connecting again with BOINC and downloaded a work unit which is currently 88% done and looks like everything is OK ... I'm guessing that the first work unit may just have been the problem.

Thanks again.

Almost a month since the original post of this message and I'm getting nothing but these messages for the work units I try.

I've already reset my preferences and reinstalled (after reboot) the software. I'm beginning to suspect BOINC simply doesn't like me or the 'mere' 450mhz win98 computer I've been testing it on (my other computers still run SETI@Home at this time).