Posts by old_user10341

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran run-time error (Message 2791) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by old_user10341 Post: Problem possibly solved??? I have this same Fortran problem on both of my AMD/Asus systems (built from scratch with at least 10GB free on each, 512MB RAM, and over 1.8MHZ AMD processors...one each.). One has an HP printer on it and the other has an Epson printer. They are both running Windows XP SP1. (SP2 has yet to download) I have no other HP software running on them. After looking at Carl's post, I got suspicious of my FireWall program. I'm using Zone Alarm on both systems. I looked at the Program Control and found that only the Boinc GUI was listed (fully trusted across the board). I have since added the Boinc Core Client to the list. I'll soon find out if it had any affect. I'm not willing to turn my Zone Alarm firewall software off, it has been very effective. I'm also not going to be changing registry files or other highly invasive procedures. The climateprediction software should be tolerant enough to work on such a common configuration. ========================================================================== This is the post from Carl (referred to below by "TeamPicard") Hi, I can't access my boinc account (just in an "easyinternet" in Berlin and no access to my boinc key or oxford email) -- so if someone could post this to the boinc board I would appreciate it. ----------------------------- The "conout" error message from Fortran would seem to be something on the user's system that is "intercepting" normal "stdout" for fortran (which is actually redirected to stdout_um.txt). So I would think it's some sort of "over-zealous" virus-scanner or other low-level file driver (such as the HP one in their version of Win that someone mentioned). for the "bad namelist - speca_sw*" message it could be the same thing, but it seems like the file was corrupted in download based on other messages. I'm not quite sure why so many people are getting these "bad URL" errors and unfortunately boinc doesn't do an "automatic retry." My guess is that slow connections are tough to the web servers, as far as reliability of download, or perhaps the user has firewall software that is "intercepting" the transmissiondownload and corrupting the file? It doesn't seem to be OS related since different win versions and mac and linux users have had this problem. I bumped up the "KeepAlive" and "Timeout" on the web server which seems to have helped people with slow connections, but this problem is still happening so I think it is a "third-party conflict" (i.e. firewall or some other device driver messing with the file download) Update: I just saw a post on the BOINC problems board from ThymeLawn -- it seems like the firewalls are the problem, blocking our mirror sites: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=455&post=2498#2498 since we have numerous mirrors, and other BOINC projects will have numerous sites, it's probably best to just allow BOINC access to everything on port 80? it will only "send" i.e. it's not like an open port or "server", and BOINC validates checksums and signs executables so it is very safe.