boinc messages:
--- - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Starting BOINC client version 4.05 for windows_intelx86
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Project prefs: using your defaults
Predictor@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Project prefs: using your defaults
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Project prefs: using your defaults
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Host ID is 3938
Predictor@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Host ID is 22694
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - Host ID is 98727
--- - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2004-09-01 00:46:21)
--- - 2004-09-04 00:35:01 - General prefs: using your defaults
--- - 2004-09-04 00:35:02 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:02 - Requesting 26389 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:02 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:05 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:05 - Project prefs: using your defaults
Predictor@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:05 - Deferring communication with project for 11 hours, 37 minutes, and 3 seconds
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:05 - Started download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:05 - Started download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
--- - 2004-09-04 00:35:11 - Insufficient work; requesting more
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:11 - Requesting 51879 seconds of work
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:11 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:13 - Finished download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:13 - Throughput 228603 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:13 - Started download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:14 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:14 - No schedulers responded
SETI@home - 2004-09-04 00:35:14 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:21 - Finished download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:21 - Throughput 366826 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:21 - Started download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:24 - Finished download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:24 - Throughput 303911 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:24 - Started download of 1pwn_100101052.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:27 - Finished download of 1pwn_100101052.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:27 - Throughput 6572 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:28 - Finished download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:28 - Throughput 191291 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:28 - Unrecoverable error for result 1pwn_100101052_0 (Couldn\'t start the app for this result: error -144)
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:35:28 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

My last result got the same error after running almost a week

also after re-attach it keep going and going ... :

climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:29 - Finished download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:29 - Throughput 341964 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:29 - Started download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:30 - Finished download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:30 - Throughput 293620 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:30 - Started download of 1pxx_100101098.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:33 - Finished download of 1pxx_100101098.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:33 - Throughput 6531 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:36 - Finished download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:36 - Throughput 189263 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:36 - Unrecoverable error for result 1pxx_100101098_0 (Couldn't start the app for this result: error -144)
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:45:36 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
--- - 2004-09-04 00:46:37 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:37 - Requesting 25944 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:37 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:40 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:40 - Started download of 1py0_100101101.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:43 - Finished download of 1py0_100101101.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:43 - Throughput 6569 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:43 - Unrecoverable error for result 1py0_100101101_0 (Couldn't start the app for this result: error -144)
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:46:43 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
--- - 2004-09-04 00:47:44 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:44 - Requesting 25945 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:44 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:47 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:48 - Started download of 1pxi_100101083.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:51 - Finished download of 1pxi_100101083.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:51 - Throughput 6599 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:51 - Unrecoverable error for result 1pxi_100101083_0 (Couldn't start the app for this result: error -144)
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-04 00:47:51 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

Cryz,

apparently BOINC 4.05 does not support NT4.

@Chilcotin: Not using NT4 but Windows XP SP1 on a P4 3.0 GHz

going and going...

2004-09-04 00:54:29 - Project prefs: no separate prefs for work; using your defaults
Insufficient work; requesting more
Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-04 00:54:32 - Requesting 8302 seconds of work
2004-09-04 00:54:32 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
2004-09-04 00:54:35 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded

Started download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe
Started download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Finished download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe
Throughput 179143 bytes/sec
Started download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Finished download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Throughput 380413 bytes/sec
Started download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Finished download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Throughput 335756 bytes/sec
Started download of 1pz6_100101144.zip
Finished download of 1pz6_100101144.zip
Throughput 6527 bytes/sec
Finished download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip
Throughput 186626 bytes/sec
Unrecoverable error for result 1pz6_100101144_0 (Couldn't start the app for this result: error -144)
Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
Insufficient work; requesting more
Requesting 25944 seconds of work
Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
Started download of 1pz3_100101141.zip
Finished download of 1pz3_100101141.zip
Throughput 6595 bytes/sec
Unrecoverable error for result 1pz3_100101141_0 (Couldn't start the app for this result: error -144)
Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

Hi Cryz,

Error -144 indicates that the CPDN programs have failed to create the shared memory file they require. The nature of the error shouldn't cause a workunit to be invalidated because it's a startup error rather than a processing one, so by resetting the project (or detahing and reattaching) all that you're doing is using up some of your system's daily quota of 4 WUs.

The only ways that I've reliably made the error appear are:

1) by trying to run the GUI and CLI programs at the same time. The second one to start up generates the error every time.

2) by running 2 instances of the CLI program from different directories (you can't run 2 from the same directory because it creates a lockfile). The GUI program seems to prevent you from starting a second instance by detecting when there's an instance already running.

3) by killing the BOINC process (GUI or CLI). But I wouldn't advise trying that without taking a backup of your installation directory first. The CPDN processes continue running and you get the error every time you restart BOINC. Killing the CPDN processes without restoring the backup will almost certainly result in model trashing when you restart BOINC.

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Thanks Thyme Lawn, I think it's something close to number 3 because:
Boinc was first running fine when I put it in suspend
some time later I choose file, exit (Called closing Boinc, not killing I believe)
When I restarted Boinc (No pc restart) the CPDN processes was still running, given the error, also giving an error when Detaching from CPDN
But why did I still get the error after killing CPDN (taskmanager), deleting the directory and re-attaching?

Hi Cryz,

I don't think my third scenario can apply when you do a normal exit. By killing BOINC I meant ending the process from task manager to simulate the program crashing. When you do a normal exit of BOINC it <i>should</i> always close the CPDN programs before terminating, which means you shouldn't be getting that particular error.

Assuming that the CPDN programs are using standard Windows APIs, the only way a get shared memory error should happen is if the shared memory file mapping already exists. So either BOINC has somehow managed to leave the CPDN program running (you'll be able to check that using task manager) or something else has created a shared memory file mapping with the same name.

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