It's probably something to do with that.  I had to start a J session as
admin to run pacman on that version.  The puzzling thing is how
intermittent it is.  I will re-install it in a non-protected folder and see
if that helps.
Thanks!

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:08 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> I googled exit code 5 is access is denied.
> Did you install J under program files folder? This folder is protected and
> needs privilege to write. If you run pacman, it will fail. However I'm not
> sure this will crash in powershell or not.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 6:46 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > OK - I'm looking forward to the new release.  I will track whether or not
> > the crash situation improves.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:40 PM Eric Iverson <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the report. Unfortunately not much to work with.
> > >
> > > In a few days we'll get out a new 902 release with a number of fixes.
> > With
> > > luck, you'll find that the crashes go away. If not, we can work with
> you
> > to
> > > narrow it down.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:22 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi - I have not been able to reproduce this reliably but I've been
> > > getting
> > > > a lot of crashes (about 8 in the past 2 weeks) in J 9.02 with
> messages
> > > like
> > > > this:
> > > > Process shell<8> exited abnormally with code 5
> > > > I've also occasionally gotten this with code "255".  Unfortunately,
> > when
> > > I
> > > > try re-doing a statement that led to a crash, it has completed
> > > successfully
> > > > every time so far.
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > > Devon McCormick, CFA
> > > >
> > > > Quantitative Consultant
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