[Radiance-general] rtrace seg fault

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Dave,

It sounds like rtcontrib is bombing, not rtrace.  Are you on the  
latest HEAD release?  We had some problems with the official release  
of rtcontrib under Linux, I know.  I don't remember any seg faults,  
but the Cygwin binaries seem to be prone to those if you're under  
Cygwin.

-Greg

> From: "J. David Maino" <maino at psu.edu>
> Date: March 22, 2006 10:09:13 AM PST
>
> Hello all,
>
> rtrace has been  giving me some trouble lately, but it doesn't seem  
> to be consistent. I get the following error from time to time:
>
> rtrace: signal - Broken pipe
> Segmentation Fault
>
> It usually happens while running rtcontrib, but not always.  
> Sometimes it will run fine with no problems, but then the same  
> geometry with the same command produces and error and it is not  
> always at the same point. Sometimes it is right away, sometimes a  
> few minutes into it, and sometimes a few hours into it. Is this  
> more a memory/hardware issue, or could it be a problem with the way  
> I arrange my files? Any help you could offer would be greatly  
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave