James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 12:25 PM, James Dietrich wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > http://wiki.povray.org/content/HowTo:Make_A_Bug_Report instructed me to come
> > here first before submitting a bug report. Please let me know if I should submit
> > this to the bug tracker.
> >
> > When I perform a render with this command line:
> > povray +W2596 +H1003 +Ispiral.pov +Ospiral.png +D
> > it fails every time in one of several ways:
> >   -> a segmentation fault
> >   -> aborted by xcb (example given below)
> >   -> aborted by glibc (example given below)
> >   -> apparent deadlock (render does not complete and povray process has to be
> > killed with kill -9)
> >
> > If, instead, I change the +D to -D:
> > povray +W2596 +H1003 +Ispiral.pov +Ospiral.png -D
> > the render always completes successfully.
>
> curious ... does your monitor support that resolution? I've seen
> weirdness when it attempts to scale the preview window to fit your
> monitor, but never an outright abort.

The native resolution of my monitor is 1920x1200, and it also supports other
lower-resolution modes. So it is having to scale the preview window. But I've
never had it fail like this before.

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