Just installed 1.5 on a Win98 2nd Edition, 1GHz Athlon/Tbird with 512 MB Ram.
When I start Limewire it will run for 3-6 minutes and then disappear. No error messages. If I was lucky enough to have been downloading and I restart the file will resume if the host is still available.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks

I have the same problem here buddy! No error message...Nothing at all. It just dies!! What the hell is going on!?!?!?!?!??!

I'm glad this thread exists. My LimeWire is never connected anymore. I thought the product was wonderful for about a week. Then it stopped working. I press "Connect", walk away for an hour and when I return it's still not connected.
If there's a problem with the system, I wish they'd post it on the website so users don't freak out.

I'm having the same problem. I'm using win98se, I was able to download yesterday when I first installed 1.5 but today the program just dissapears when I attempt to search or download. It crashed my system once. I have the latest virtual machine

I have the same problem. Limewire just disappears with no error message. The icon appears in the task bar but as soon as the cursor is moved there it also disappears.
Why all the fuss about the Java problem which is so easily corrected but no comments about this? Is this one of the reasons 1.5 was taken down?
Later Scrappy

same thing happening to me on limewire.
i start it up. .its of for a few seconds
then it crashes

no idea why?
frustrating
it did work for a while.. a few weeks.. i added imesh.com another peer to peer pgm and now its doing this.. so is imesh.com

Here we go again -> I have exactly the same problem... (maybe I shouldn't even post this message here). After a few minutes, or sometimes even after a few seconds, LimeWire shuts down without an error message. It's really frustrating, because if you're searching for a file the program just dissapears into thin air (over and over again aaaaaaaah). I don't think I can blame Windows 98 for this...

In the LimeWire folder several log-files are created - they are all reporting errors like this:

An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x560020
Function name=(N/A)
Library=(N/A)

NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
reason and solutions.

Current Java thread:
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(Unknown Source)
at a.a.a.l.e(l.java:297)
at a.a.a.m.m(m.java:318)
at a.a.a.m.e(m.java:19)
at a.a.a.cq.run(cq.java:367)

Dynamic libraries:
0x7D6D0000 - 0x7D6ED000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IMAGEHLP.DLL

Local Time = Fri Jul 06 13:02:01 2001
Elapsed Time = 186
#
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.3.1-b24 mixed mode)
#

I hope this problem can be resolved - because LimeWire's definitely a great prog to use...

Same problem that has been mentioned many times already. I run limewire. Then, within anywhere from 30 seconds to about 10 minnutes the program completly goes away without any kind of error message. For the time it stays on it works fine.

To all you Win98 users having problems with the disappearing LimeWire: Are you firewalled? Do you ever see incoming connections from your Connections tab?

Christopher Rohrs
Sr. Software Engineer
LimeWire

I have personally had quite a number of incoming connections. There have been times when it starts and runs for almost 10 minutes and allows me to do searches, downloads etc.Yes I see connections in the connections tab. If LW disappears during a download I can restart LW and the download will resume if the host is still available. I have Win 98 a cable modem on the @home network.
Later