POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : PNG and segmentation faults : Re: PNG and segmentation faults Server Time
26 Jun 2024 02:43:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PNG and segmentation faults  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 27 Nov 2005 09:18:50
Message: <dmcf4e$m2c$1@chho.imagico.de>
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

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