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29 Jul 2024 04:31:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Segmentation Fault for everything  
From: Alain
Date: 30 Jan 2013 14:45:59
Message: <51097877@news.povray.org>

> I've been running the latest povray using the MacPorts distribution method, and
> everything was working fine until I updated all the packages using selfupdate.
> Now povray crashes every time I run it, regardless of the input file, with error
> message "Segmentation fault: 11" appearing last.
>
> Here is what I get simply by invoking "povray" from the command line:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> povray: This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE version of POV-Ray. General distribution is
> discouraged.
> povray: cannot open the user configuration file
> /Users/hernlund/.povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
>
> Problem with option setting
> povray
> No input file provided
> Segmentation fault: 11
>
The problem seems to be the missing povray.conf file.
Maybe it's absence is what's causing the seg fault.



Alain


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