POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : POV-Ray Mac 3.6 crash on loading : Re: POV-Ray Mac 3.6 crash on loading Server Time
14 May 2024 00:10:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Mac 3.6 crash on loading  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 8 May 2009 08:58:53
Message: <4a042c8d$1@news.povray.org>
Andreas wrote:
> Recently I was creating a movie in POV-Ray on my Mac (Leopard). After finishing
> rendering POV-Ray unexpectedly closed down.
> 
> Upon restart I got the following message:
> 
> "A fatal error occurred. If the same problem occurs more than once, please fill
> out a bug report form in the POV-Ray documentation folder. Please include the
> error number below.
> 
> The error number is -199. (For internal reference only)."
> 
> 
> It was then impossible for me to load POV-Ray without getting this
> error-message. To solve the problem I removed POV-Ray from my computer,
> downloaded the newest version and installed it, but still the problem
> persisted.
> 
> So right now I am unable to gain access to POV-Ray. How can I solve this
> problem?

Try deleting the preferences file, which is probably locked and causes the 
problem.

	Thorsten, POV-Team


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