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From: Etienne Renguet
Subject: pvengine.exe has generated errors -- Cannot start POV Ray under Windows
Date: 11 Mar 2005 12:30:00
Message: <web.4231d50442a3cf1a19ac96c50@news.povray.org>
Help! Cannot start POV-Ray anymore. Got Windows error message "pvengine.exe
has generated errors and will be shut down by Windows. You will have to
restart this program. Windows is creating an error log." (*)

Looks like a Windows problem, not a POV Ray one, but please can you help?

POV-Ray is v3.6.
PC is laptop under Windows 2000.
Ran fine for about 2 weeks until a few hours ago. This morning, I installed
and tested pose-ray, downloaded some 3DS models from 3dCafe.com, and ran
some scenes from oyonale.org and ignorancia.org, all of which ran ok.

I could not find the error log Windows is supposed to have written.

I have tried the following but to no avail:
-reboot the PC
-uninstall and reinstall POV-Ray in the same directory
-uninstall and reinstall POV-Ray in another directory
-download again the POV-Ray v3.6 (for 32-bit Windows) installer from
povray.org and re-install POV-Ray


Many, many thanks.



(*)Note: the English message text is my modest translation of the actual




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From: Stefan Viljoen
Subject: Re: pvengine.exe has generated errors -- Cannot start POV Ray under Windows
Date: 15 Mar 2005 00:50:36
Message: <423677ab@news.povray.org>
The right honourable Etienne Renguet spake:

> Help! Cannot start POV-Ray anymore. Got Windows error message
> "pvengine.exe has generated errors and will be shut down by Windows. You
> will have to restart this program. Windows is creating an error log." (*)
> 
> Looks like a Windows problem, not a POV Ray one, but please can you help?

Changed or installed any software? Removed / altered any system .DLL files?

Have you checked for a viral infection?

-- 
---
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions


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From: Etienne Renguet
Subject: Re: pvengine.exe has generated errors -- Cannot start POV Ray under Window=
Date: 23 Mar 2005 12:30:00
Message: <web.4241a709729c5d38e4e88ea30@news.povray.org>
Thanks for your advice.
Yes I have done all that.
After further investigation seems to come from my moving the .pov files that
were open last time I used POV-Ray.
The problem disappeared after I removed the related entries in the Windows
registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/POV-Ray/v3.6/POV-Edit/Open).
Guess this can be qualified as a POV-Ray bug?


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From: Fabien Mosen
Subject: Re: pvengine.exe has generated errors -- Cannot start POV Ray under Window=
Date: 29 Apr 2005 08:03:28
Message: <42722290$1@news.povray.org>

> Thanks for your advice.
> Yes I have done all that.
> After further investigation seems to come from my moving the .pov files that
> were open last time I used POV-Ray.
> The problem disappeared after I removed the related entries in the Windows
> registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/POV-Ray/v3.6/POV-Edit/Open).

Thanks a lot, I've just been annoyed by the very same problem today,
and I was unable to figure what was happening.

The strange thing is that I've moved POV-Ray source files a thousand
times before, without causing such hassle.  The computer I'm using
(at work) is running Windows XP SP2, and I'm wondering if some
recent automatic update/patch isn't turning a minor problem
into a critical one...

> Guess this can be qualified as a POV-Ray bug?

It's Windows itself that closes POV-Ray by authority, and it says
that it happens in module cmedit.dll, so it's rather a problem
with CodeMax (and Windows, as I stated just before).

However, I think it should be fixed (if possible) on POV-Ray's side, or
it might become a support pain...

Fabien.


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From: s0nik
Subject: Re: pvengine.exe has generated errors -- Cannot start POV Ray under Window=
Date: 28 Aug 2005 23:20:00
Message: <web.43127ecfe3f831afea4eb80e0@news.povray.org>
Still the same, even in the 3.7 beta8 which I have downloaded as the last
effort.. Thx for the advice!


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