I feel your pain. I tried to convert all my machines, some of which are pretty old, to boinc 5.8 and had problems. I won't say definitively that boinc was to blame in every case, but I DO know that I was able to run UD agent on those same machines with no problems.

Then the announcement came out that all future projects would be boinc and that UD would be phased out by mid 2008. So I figured I would try to upgrade to the current download from WCG, boinc 5.10. I don't know what changes where made to this version, but it seems to run on each of the 3 machines that had a problem with boinc 5.8. One is an old AMD chip running at 800mhz with only 512mb of memory. With the firewall/virus software plus boinc, the machine is REAL slow with lots of page file access, but it works. Setting an automated utility to boot the machine every day helps.

If you have the time, I'd give 5.10 a try. Otherwise, I think a new version with an uninstaller for UD agent will be coming out in September so you could also wait until then.

Considering the fact that about 2/3 of the current clients are on UD not boinc, we're in for some interesting times. WCG is supposed to be sending out emails to members to encourage them to make the switch. So . . . it might be better to do it sooner rather than later. At least if you do it now, you'll be more likely to get tech support with whatever problems you might have.

Just looked at my stats to see the errors. None. Received credit but according to my log, I don't think I should have. Can anyone tell me where to look for my older logs in mac os? Want to look at my last log and maybe send to the gurus here. Scratchin my head on this one. I'll resume with this version until I figure it out.
Randy

I have a mac but found it anyway. Here is the message I get: faah...exited with zero status but no finish file. Then the next line reads if this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project. I did reset the project but it happened again. I shut down the computer, restarted and am watching for this again. If this happens again, whats the fix?
Randy

So your telling me to ignore this and keep on crunchin with this version? Was there any messages sent to boinc users about this particular version doing this so us users don't waste time reseting the project only to find out this normal? Does the next higher version have this same bug?
Randy

Am asuming you mean the beta testing so just opted in for beta testing. Let me know if I am wrong and point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Randy