Gnucleus 1.8.3 problem
 

When I upgraded to 1.8.3, I got a Microsoft Visual C++ error saying that the application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. I tried several times, with the same results. I finally reverted back to 1.8.2 and it worked again.

I later tried to re-update to 1.8.3 with the same results. Downgrading back to 1.8.2 miraculously made everything work again.

By the way, my OS is Windows XP (NT 5.1) Home Edition.

Here's a screen shot:
http://zooplah.dyndns.org/images/rterr.png

I also get such an error after some time on a Win2k machine.

With all that crap running (see your lower right corner) it's no wonder windows crashes all the time. Why do you think windows can handle anything more than one task at a time?

Windows XP hasn't crashed a single time since I got it in November, 2001 (Windows 98 and ME crashed, on average, twice a day) and it's very rare for any app to crash. This is obviously a Gnucleus error (as far as I can tell, it's a user-raised exception, not a crash; but I'm not too familiar with C++).

And I don't have that much running in my system tray: Mozilla, Gnucleus, Dynamic DNS updater, HTTP and mail servers, download manager, instant messenger, and sound-playback controls.

It may be a bit ironic that Gnucleus continues to run until I push "OK", but it doesn't even open in compatibility mode.

Does anybody know why this is happening and/or if it will be fixed in future versions?

So when is too much? 200 things running? What is with you people? The OS can't handle this!

Too much is things that I don't use regualrly. Eight (8) things isn't that much.

Actually, I was perhaps a little ambigous before. Apache (HTTP server) and Windows Messenger are actually services that provide an icon to open/control them.

Further, most of these things require little memory. Mozilla is the biggest, as it acts like IE (loads itself into memory to start faster). Besides, these apps aren't processing the slew of GUI messages that they would be if all things were open when they're in the system tray.

Not to seem rude, but maybe the reason you can't run more than one thing at a time is a hardware problem. Or maybe you haven't upgraded Windows in years and think that newer versions differ in name only. Or maybe you use Linux or similar and have an exaggerated view of Windows. Or, most likely, you're a troll.

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BTW, these futile flames you're throwing aren't exactly related to my query.

Let's all relax and settle down guys, right?

Zooplah, I am running Gnucleus 1.8.3 and have had none of the problems you are experiencing. I'm running 2000 Pro SP2.

Have you made any posts on this problem in the Gnucleus.Net forums?

Oooops
 

hey, Zooplah...

It just happened to me.
I had been on for about 8 hours and uploaded about 80 files.
I had someone going after a 16MB file at .017KBs with hours and hours to go and huge queues building for other things. I normally have 0.50 as a cut-off for upload speeds but it didn't work...... I 'removed' the download and whammo, got the same screen in the language of 2000 Pro.
You are not alone.

had the same problem it only happened oonce then it went away. i have no idea what it is. i run xp pro.

Again, same here (fingers crossed).
I have been back on now for about 14 hours and all seems to be 'normal'.

I run about 10 times the amount you saw in that screenshot. My comp has been up on XP [NT 5.1 2600] for 4 weeks without a reboot now, still has good memory usage and is responsive.

Programs dont kill a comp. Badly written programs will lock the os. Most spyware is very poorly written and has major resource leaks, so you all may want to use a program such as ad-aware. Another thing you may want to use is Clearmem -- I microsoft tool designed for NT4 [works on 2k/xp] which cleans up these resource leaks in both phys. and virtual memory.

I attached the exe to this post for all who are interested in using clearmem...

Hey, I think I was a victim of bitrot. I just had a brilliant idea today to uninstall Gnucleus, install an old version (1.7.4) and upgrade directly to 1.8.3 (I had been doing incremental upgrades). Now, I'm running 1.8.3 and it's working very well.

Thanks for all those that provided helpful replies.

ah, Zooplah, dream on....... I tried exactly the same... have had 3 crashes now after big chunks of hours and many uploads.
It IS a problem within Gnucleus, not your OS or mine.
In fact, I have done a full /unconditional format followed by a clean installation of 2000 Pro with ANOTHER /unconditional format during the install....... I have a clean registry and the problems occur, regardless. I wonder how many other users out there have tried these tests with only Diskeeper 7.0 and Gnucleus installed on their machines? No other programs, at all!
Interesting that both Gnucleus 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 and the BearShare 3 alpha and beta series have had such similar problems...... especially as of late with BS (although noises are being made that beta 53 is somehow OK now....)
For me, I am going back to Gnucleus 1.8.2, AGAIN, until the dust clears!:eek:

Ursula, I'd like to clarify that Gnucleus 1.8.3 does crash occasionally (it crashed three times yesterday), but I no longer get the Visual C++ exception dialog on startup.

Luckily, I still have a zipped up version of the 1.8.2 replacement files, so I'll probably re-downgrade again if the Gnucleus guys don't get a new version out soon.

It may be prudent not to get versions that don't have full installers. 1.74 and 1.7.5 worked fine, 1.7.7 crashed occasionally, 1.8.2 worked fine, and now 1.8.3 crashes occasionally. It may not be coinincidental that versions without installers are, to put it mildly, less than stable.

i just download gnucleaus and i got an error saying "oleacc.dll Missing" What does that mean and how do i fix it?

you guys are all wrong