POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : fatal error upon launch, -199 error code : Re: fatal error upon launch, -199 error code Server Time
15 May 2024 22:33:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: fatal error upon launch, -199 error code  
From: eefKnot
Date: 23 Mar 2009 15:30:00
Message: <web.49c7e2669e58aae42e3309c70@news.povray.org>
"jmcfizix" <jmc### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> POV RAY had been working fine on my Macbook (Mac OS 10.5.6, 2.16 GHZ Intel Duo,
> 1 Gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM) for quite some time.  Now when I launch, I get a fatal
> error message and a -199 error code.  The launching stalls out on the "Reading
> Preferences", then shows the error message.
>
> I did a computer restart = no change.
> I reinstalled POVRAY = no change.
>
> I can't think of any system changes that I would have made that would have
> affected this program.
>
> I installed POVRAY on the the Windows XP volume on my Macbook and it seems to
> work OK so far, but it no longer works on the Mac side.
>
> Any help would be great.



I have had exactly the same experience:

POV RAY worked fine on my MacBook (OS 10.5.6) until recently and now it will
always give a fatal error upon attempting to launch (error -199).

Reinstallation did not fix the problem.

Thanks.


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