POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : PNG and segmentation faults : Re: PNG and segmentation faults Server Time
26 Jun 2024 02:53:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PNG and segmentation faults  
From: JRG
Date: 27 Nov 2005 09:32:23
Message: <4389c377$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> JRG wrote:
>> I've been using POV-Ray under Linux for just a couple of days. I 
>> always save my images as png files. Never encountered a single problem.
>> Now, just a few minutes ago, after 3 hours of rendering, POV-Ray 
>> crashed with a segmentation fault. Every attempt to render again the 
>> scene as a png image resulted in another segmentation fault. It seems 
>> to work fine with tga.
>>
>> Any clue what this might be due to?
> 
> Do you use the official binary or a self compiled version?
> 
> If you use a self built version you should try building with the libpng 
> version coming with POV-Ray and not the one installed on the system.
> 
> Christoph
> 

Hmm, I have the feeling it's not something POV-Ray related... Kopete 
just keeps on crashing... and here's a snip of the backtrace log I get:


[KCrash handler]
#4  0x41908fdf in __deregister_frame () from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#5  0x418e9328 in deflateParams () from /lib/libz.so.1
#6  0x418e83b9 in deflate () from /lib/libz.so.1
#7  0x419f1b00 in png_write_filtered_row () from /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
#8  0x000007f2 in ?? ()
#9  0x41a1c66c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
#10 0x00000092 in ?? ()
#11 0x0836a390 in ?? ()
#12 0x419f2026 in png_write_find_filter () from /usr/lib/libpng.so.3

Anyway, I'm using a pre-compiled version coming with the SUSE 10 
distribution.

--
Jonathan.


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