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From: Alain
Subject: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 22 Oct 2006 17:05:21
Message: <453bdd11@news.povray.org>
On W2K sp4
EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
Renders correctly but crashes just after.
Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message stating that 
"dbghelp.dll" is to old.

-- 
Alain
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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 22 Oct 2006 23:12:28
Message: <453c331c$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> On W2K sp4
> EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
> Renders correctly but crashes just after.
> Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message stating that 
> "dbghelp.dll" is to old.

please unzip http://www.povray.org/beta/dbghelp.zip into the same dir as the
program and try again. if you want to send us the dump, please make sure it's
made using pvengine.exe (i.e. not the SSE2 build), and email it to us at
min### [at] povrayorg.

thanks,

-- Chris


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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 3 Nov 2006 17:04:49
Message: <454bbd01$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> On W2K sp4
> EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
> Renders correctly but crashes just after.
> Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message stating 
> that "dbghelp.dll" is to old.
> 
I also get the crashing, but no errors about the dll.

Every scene I've tried so far, crashes as soon as it completes.

Athlon XP 1700 (1.4gHz), 448MB RAM (PC133), Windows XP SP2.

...Chambers


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 4 Nov 2006 19:36:15
Message: <454d31ff@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 03/11/2006 17:04:
> Alain wrote:
>> On W2K sp4
>> EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
>> Renders correctly but crashes just after.
>> Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message stating 
>> that "dbghelp.dll" is to old.

> I also get the crashing, but no errors about the dll.

> Every scene I've tried so far, crashes as soon as it completes.

> Athlon XP 1700 (1.4gHz), 448MB RAM (PC133), Windows XP SP2.

> ...Chambers
It's a system dll, the one from winXP is recent, the one from win2K dates back 
to 2003. I now have the new one and the error disapeared. I've sent the crash log.

-- 
Alain
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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 4 Nov 2006 22:26:07
Message: <454d59cf$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> Ben Chambers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 03/11/2006 17:04:
>> Alain wrote:
>>> On W2K sp4
>>> EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
>>> Renders correctly but crashes just after.
>>> Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message 
>>> stating that "dbghelp.dll" is to old.
> 
>> I also get the crashing, but no errors about the dll.
> 
>> Every scene I've tried so far, crashes as soon as it completes.
> 
>> Athlon XP 1700 (1.4gHz), 448MB RAM (PC133), Windows XP SP2.
> 
>> ...Chambers
> It's a system dll, the one from winXP is recent, the one from win2K 
> dates back to 2003. I now have the new one and the error disapeared. 
> I've sent the crash log.

Like I said, I don't have any errors with the dll, but it still crashes 
on me.

I sent a minidump (my mail won't accept the full dump file, its too big).

...Chambers


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 5 Nov 2006 09:58:51
Message: <454dfc2b@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 04/11/2006 22:26:
> Alain wrote:
>> Ben Chambers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 03/11/2006 17:04:
>>> Alain wrote:
>>>> On W2K sp4
>>>> EMPTY scene or actual scenes.
>>>> Renders correctly but crashes just after.
>>>> Offers to create a dump. Aborts the dump creation with message 
>>>> stating that "dbghelp.dll" is to old.

>>> I also get the crashing, but no errors about the dll.

>>> Every scene I've tried so far, crashes as soon as it completes.

>>> Athlon XP 1700 (1.4gHz), 448MB RAM (PC133), Windows XP SP2.

>>> ...Chambers
>> It's a system dll, the one from winXP is recent, the one from win2K 
>> dates back to 2003. I now have the new one and the error disapeared. 
>> I've sent the crash log.

> Like I said, I don't have any errors with the dll, but it still crashes 
> on me.

> I sent a minidump (my mail won't accept the full dump file, its too big).

> ...Chambers

Try ziping it. Maybe the minidump is enough. If the full dump is needed, you can 
  use yousendit if the ziped version is still to large.

-- 
Alain
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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 5 Nov 2006 20:02:10
Message: <454e8992$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> Ben Chambers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 04/11/2006 22:26:
>> I sent a minidump (my mail won't accept the full dump file, its too big).
> 
>> ...Chambers
> 
> Try ziping it. Maybe the minidump is enough. If the full dump is needed, 
> you can  use yousendit if the ziped version is still to large.
> 

Now, why didn't I think of that? :o  Must have been a brain-freeze.

...Chambers


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 14 Nov 2006 12:12:34
Message: <4559f902@news.povray.org>
Thanks for sending the dump, it showed the problem right away, which is that
for some reason the PNG output code has an SSE2 instruction in it. I checked
my build settings and at least at this point it's definitely turned off for
that module, but I did build it differently pre beta-17, so it's definitely
possible I accidentally left SSE2 on for that code while it was off for the rest.

Hopefully all will be OK for you in beta 17.

-- Chris


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: POV ray beta 16 crashes uppon completion
Date: 14 Nov 2006 12:18:02
Message: <4559fa4a$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> It's a system dll, the one from winXP is recent, the one from win2K dates back 
> to 2003. I now have the new one and the error disapeared. I've sent the crash log.

Thanks for this; your problem is the same as Ben's (SSE2 instruction in png
write code).

-- Chris


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