GUIMiner fails to connect. Infinite loop?

[screennameless]

I set up GUIMiner as shown in the tutorials, and ran it, and it gets stuck at "Connecting..."
It did this for an hour until I decided to click "Show console".
Show console kept looping at "Line:" for a few seconds, and then the program crashed.
I looked at the guiminer.log file, and it was over 1GB; all of which was just a timestamp, and then "Line:"

Any idea what could cause this?

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[Tester121]

I have THE SAME problem. WTF?

[aWESometastic]

Same here, exact same problem.  I have attempted connecting through slush, deepbit, and btc mine.  Same problem every time.  it says "Starting..." in the bottom right corner, and remains so for hours.  solution?

[en3r0]

mine also just stays at Connecting...

[Creepster]

Same here, until it suddenly said "connection problems" after i did a start/stop, and then it started giving me figures for the CPU - i still have the problem with the cuda worker on the same computer :-/  - Was starting to think it might be the gpu it failed to connect with or something.

Makes me miss the RC5 challenge

[aWESometastic]

would someone please help us?

[symaxian]

Same problem here.
Attempting to connect to slush's pool without success, just stays at starting for a bit and then connecting.

CPU Usage for the process stays at about 25%.

Console:
Listener for "Default" shutting down
Running command: poclbm.exe --user=***** --pass=***** -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 -d0 --verbose
Listener for "Default" started

OpenCL is also not detected, although a GTX260 is installed with the latest drivers.

[Basiley]

OpenCL had only basicly supported in present Nvidia drivers. hardly can render even untextured cube without errors :[
until that change, NV chips unusable for mining. try CUDA miner insted.
push Nvidia for quicker OpenCL adoption and forget about PR-puping CUDE proprietary garbage !
and/or donate to Kronos group[OpenCL creator(allong other SIG members, starting from ... Apple )/developer].