I just downloaded beta 5, and queued a considerable number of scenes to
check if they all still work correctly. I also happened to switch on
"Reload on startup", which turned out to be A Bad Move.

One of the scenes is causing the program to crash instantly. So now
every time I start the program it reloads the queue, starts to render
the problem scene, and crashes. The crash occurs before the splash image
closes, and the splash covers the stop button, so I can't stop the
render before it crashes. So the next time the program starts, the same
scene is still at the top of the queue, and the same thing happens
again.

PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module
PVENGINE.EXE at 018f:0046bd9b.

I don't have a simple example scene that crashes yet. All the ones that
crash so far are rather complex.

POV 3.5b5, AMD K6-2 500, 128Mb.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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Did you try to re-install the program? That might clear the queue.

Mike Williams wrote:

> I just downloaded beta 5, and queued a considerable number of scenes to
> check if they all still work correctly. I also happened to switch on
> "Reload on startup", which turned out to be A Bad Move.
> 
> One of the scenes is causing the program to crash instantly. So now
> every time I start the program it reloads the queue, starts to render
> the problem scene, and crashes. The crash occurs before the splash image
> closes, and the splash covers the stop button, so I can't stop the
> render before it crashes. So the next time the program starts, the same
> scene is still at the top of the queue, and the same thing happens
> again.
> 
> PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module
> PVENGINE.EXE at 018f:0046bd9b.
> 
> I don't have a simple example scene that crashes yet. All the ones that
> crash so far are rather complex.
> 
> POV 3.5b5, AMD K6-2 500, 128Mb.
> 
>

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Should be able to edit the ..\ini\pvengine.ini file and prevent that.
Relevant part looks like so (pretty obvious):

[FileQueue]
ReloadOnStartup=0
QueueCount=3
QueuedFile0=c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\scenes\a.pov
QueuedFile1=c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\scenes\b.pov
QueuedFile2=c:\program files\pov-ray for windows v3.5\scenes\c.pov

Bob H.

"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
news:3BC### [at] chesapeakenet...
> Did you try to re-install the program? That might clear the queue.
>
> Mike Williams wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded beta 5, and queued a considerable number of scenes to
> > check if they all still work correctly. I also happened to switch on
> > "Reload on startup", which turned out to be A Bad Move.
> >
> > One of the scenes is causing the program to crash instantly. So now
> > every time I start the program it reloads the queue, starts to render
> > the problem scene, and crashes. The crash occurs before the splash image
> > closes, and the splash covers the stop button, so I can't stop the
> > render before it crashes. So the next time the program starts, the same
> > scene is still at the top of the queue, and the same thing happens
> > again.
> >
> > PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module
> > PVENGINE.EXE at 018f:0046bd9b.
> >
> > I don't have a simple example scene that crashes yet. All the ones that
> > crash so far are rather complex.
> >
> > POV 3.5b5, AMD K6-2 500, 128Mb.
> >
> >
>

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"Bob H." <omn### [at] msncom> wrote in message news:3bc18306@news.povray.org...
> Should be able to edit the ..\ini\pvengine.ini file and prevent that.
> Relevant part looks like so (pretty obvious):
>
> [FileQueue]
> ReloadOnStartup=0

This is the correct way to fix it.

I've added code to the program to avoid this problem in the future.

-- Chris

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I get the same error type, also with a complex operation (my parametric
surface generator):

PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module PVENGINE.EXE at 017f:005c68d7.
Registers:
EAX=00000a30 CS=017f EIP=005c68d7 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=07526bb9 SS=0187 ESP=03f89238 EBP=07526bb8
ECX=03f81240 DS=0187 ESI=0000000b FS=49b7
EDX=0000000b ES=0187 EDI=00000073 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
85 01 3d 00 10 00 00 73 ec 2b c8 8b c4 85 01 8b
Stack dump:
00000000 0042a95d 07526bb8 0000000b 00000000 07526bb9 07526bb8 0000000b
00000073 0045a614 00000000 00000016 00000022 005c6e9d 07526bb9 03f892b0

400MHz K6-2, Win98SE, 128 MB, POV-Ray 3.5b5

Mike Williams wrote:

> I just downloaded beta 5, and queued a considerable number of scenes to
> check if they all still work correctly. I also happened to switch on
> "Reload on startup", which turned out to be A Bad Move.
>
> One of the scenes is causing the program to crash instantly. So now
> every time I start the program it reloads the queue, starts to render
> the problem scene, and crashes. The crash occurs before the splash image
> closes, and the splash covers the stop button, so I can't stop the
> render before it crashes. So the next time the program starts, the same
> scene is still at the top of the queue, and the same thing happens
> again.
>
> PVENGINE caused a stack fault in module
> PVENGINE.EXE at 018f:0046bd9b.
>
> I don't have a simple example scene that crashes yet. All the ones that
> crash so far are rather complex.
>
> POV 3.5b5, AMD K6-2 500, 128Mb.
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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