Hi!
I made a fresh BOINC installation an two pcs (WinXP and Win2k) behind a firewall (webwasher with user authentication). Everything worked fine, until the first results had to be uploaded. When trying to upload, the BOINC client crashes (disappears, without error message). Nothing can bei found in the logfiles about the crash.
This behaviour is reproducable. The client has no problems to continue work, if the network access is disabled.
I made a trace of the communication and found two TCP zero windows before crashing.
Any clues?
Best regards,
Thomas.

hmm, there may two reasons.

1. webwasher (is not a firewall!!!!! only a popup blocker)
2. 3.20 client (wich is an alpha)

try to kick webwasher, and install a real desktop firewall (mcaffe f.eg.) and install 3.19 .
there are a lot of users they have probs with 3.20

or there is another seti server problem

This is a misunderstanding:

Webwasher is not the firewall, this is correct. But I´m sitting behind a (company) firewall, and webwasher is used as proxy (not the workstation version of webwasher, but the professional proxyserver version). I´m not glad about webwasher too, but I have no influence on the proxy software.

I already tried to downgrade to 3.19, but this version crashes too.

Because this happens on two completely different pcs with different operating systems, I suspect bug in the BOINC client. It may be, that this bug occurs only in combination with proxy authentication or more specifically with the webwasher proxy, but anyway BOINC should not crash this way.

Are these (possible) bug reports read by any of the BOINC developers, or is there a seperate email address where I can send it to?

Best regards,
Thomas.

I am behind a company proxy (w/authentication) as well, and my 3.19 and 3.20 are crashing on multiple PCs everytime they want to upload. The error I get in the stderr.txt file is:

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x00401D98 write attempt to address 0x73614220

1: 07/16/04 12:15:18

Hello,

I have the same problem and someone posted tome that this is an error with the Boinc.

If you have to authorizise with your proxy then Boinc crashes... Both 3.19 and 3.20 (on my pc !)

If yu find a solution please let me know, Thanks

greetings

This was mentioned in the Dev mail list the other day, it seems a buffer to hold the proxy/auth info was way to small and causing this problem, this has been changed so hopefully in next version it should work.

Another thing about proxy auth: The password is stored in cleartext. This is a big security issue, because this password is often the domain logon password. It should be encrypted!

Best regards,
Thomas.

In another post I saw the hint to use a local proxy which will deal with the "real" proxy - "http://www.proxomitron.info/" did the job for me...