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OS: 32 Bit Vista Basic
Client: CPU Console V6 Beta 4
Flags: -advmethods -verbosity 9 -oneunit
Project: 3907 (Run 778, Clone 4, Gen 4)

Everything was fine until the unit was finished:

[07:44:34] Completed 500000 out of 500000 steps (100%)
[07:45:35]
[07:45:35] Finished Work Unit:
[07:45:35] - Reading up to 7946892 from "work/wudata_01.trr": Read 7946892
[07:45:36] - Reading up to 1148136 from "work/wudata_01.xtc": Read 1148136
[07:45:36] logfile size: 27428
[07:45:36] Leaving Run
[07:45:36] - Writing 11610076 bytes of core data to disk...
[07:45:48] Done: 11609564 -> 9607008 (compressed to 82.7 percent)
[07:45:48] ... Done.
[07:45:49] - Shutting down core
[07:45:49]
[07:45:49] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[07:45:53] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[07:45:53] Unit 1 finished with 97 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[07:45:53] Updated performance fraction: 0.973841
[07:45:53] Sending work to server
[07:45:53] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_01.dat
[07:45:53] - Error: Could not read unit 01 file. Removing from queue.
[07:45:53] Trying to send all finished work units
[07:45:53] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[07:45:53] + -oneunit flag given and have now finished a unit. Exiting.***** Got a SIGTERM signal (2)
[07:45:53] Killing all core threads

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.

I hate to see a WU go down the drain. Any ideas?

Akuma16 wrote:OS: 32 Bit Vista Basic

I hate to see a WU go down the drain. Any ideas?

Yes, it's almost certainly a bad interaction with Vista security. There are several possiblities, though. Which of the recommendations to get FAH to run under VIsta did you choose.
Is FAH installed in \Program Files?
Is UAC enabled or disabled?
Did you Run As Administrator when you started FAH?

bruce wrote: Yes, it's almost certainly a bad interaction with Vista security. There are several possiblities, though. Which of the recommendations to get FAH to run under VIsta did you choose.
Is FAH installed in \Program Files?
Is UAC enabled or disabled?
Did you Run As Administrator when you started FAH?

UAC is enabled, I simply haven't gotten around to disableing it.
It is installed in \Program Files\Folding@Home, but I gave the Users group full control for that specific folder in the hope that would make Vista security happy. And I ran that instance of the command prompt without Admin privelege. I dislike haveing to run a program with elevated privelege, but I know in the past, not running as Admin has caused problems.

I guess what we have here is a case of nothing but user error!

I will make a backup of the current context, move the folder to my \users folder tree, and run with Admin privelege.
Thanks for the help.

I, too, dislike having to run with elevated privileges. Vista has begun enforcing the standard that only the trusted installer puts things in "\Program Files" so the default installers are being redesigned to put user data in the \User\<your name> location like Linux does. That leaves the problem of where (and how) to install dynamically updated software, including all of the FahCores+_* programs.

(I'm running FAH in Vista without "run as administrator" but I have not yet settled on a "best" configuration for FAH. The Pande Group is working on similar issues and I hope we're not heading in opposite directions.)