My Windows machine crashed this task (and two others. What happened is an update sneaked in and rebooted the computerl The other two tasks were v8.24 tasks, so that is what I would have expected, but it appears that v8.29 are not immune to this either.

Task 22414291
Name wah2_eas25_a3wb_201012_24_1007_012269907_1
Workunit 12269907
Computer ID 1512658
Application version Weather At Home 2 (wah2) (region independent) v8.29
windows_intelx86

The beginning of the stderr is like this.

Stderr

<core_client_version>7.24.1</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
The storage control block address is invalid.
(0x9) - exit code 9 (0x9)</message>

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Yes, I've seen that quite a few times. There was a post about it on another thread. There is more information about this error online. It's caused by windows update and it can affect other processes. It's not the same reason v8.24 crashed. That had a bug that could cause a crash anytime it was restarted.

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CPDN Visiting Scientist

One reason I like Linux better than Microsoft Windows is that when my Linux system has updates, there is a little pop-up informing me of that fact.
It does not install the updates. I can get a list of the updates it wants to download and install.

I can tell ahead of time if installing the updates will require a reboot or not.
If not, i just install them. The main reason to do a reboot is if a new kernel needs to be installed. (Even if I install it, I can defer rebooting until a more opportune time.)

So what I do is when I am going to reboot I stop fetching new work. I then suspend all the tasks that are ready to start.
I wait until all running tasks have completed, reboot the system, resume the suspended processes, and resume the fetching new work. This keeps the problems down, but does not solve them completely.

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