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From: SharkD
Subject: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 9 Dec 2008 15:55:00
Message: <web.493eda204f59c5434f5a8c2a0@news.povray.org>
The renderer quits unexpectedly with usch errors as "Parse Error: Cannot open
input file" and "Unknown internal error!". Eventually, if you keep trying the
scene will render, but it may quit again on the next frame in an animation.

This issue is discussed at greater length here:

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.493a64ae15bf06cba19b81b0%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=18

-Mike


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 10 Dec 2008 03:45:56
Message: <493f81c4@news.povray.org>
SharkD wrote:
> The renderer quits unexpectedly with usch errors as "Parse Error: Cannot open
> input file" and "Unknown internal error!". Eventually, if you keep trying the
> scene will render, but it may quit again on the next frame in an animation.
> 
> This issue is discussed at greater length here:
> 
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.493a64ae15bf06cba19b81b0%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=18

Please read the message below, it is still valid except for he moderation part:

From: Alan Kong <ako### [at] povrayWWWSPAMCOMorg>
Newsgroups: povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
Subject: bug reporting
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:32:49 -0700
Message-ID: <fpupiu02i1198jbb38i3o06hv6is1a3uar@4ax.com>
XX-Trace: news.povray.org 1026358356 12.246.79.48 (10 Jul 2002 23:32:36 
Xref: news.povray.org povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions:50

	Thorsten, POV-Team


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 10 Dec 2008 09:30:00
Message: <web.493fd158eec8960f2c4b57320@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Please read the message below, it is still valid except for he moderation part:
>
> From: Alan Kong <ako### [at] povrayWWWSPAMCOMorg>
> Newsgroups: povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
> Subject: bug reporting
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:32:49 -0700
> Message-ID: <fpupiu02i1198jbb38i3o06hv6is1a3uar@4ax.com>
> XX-Trace: news.povray.org 1026358356 12.246.79.48 (10 Jul 2002 23:32:36
> Xref: news.povray.org povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions:50
>
>  Thorsten, POV-Team

* The problem affects beta 29.
* I've observed the problem on two computers.
* Computer #1:
  - Windows XP Home
  - AMD Sempron 3000
  - 1.5GB RAM
* Computer #2:
  - Windows Vista Home Premium
  - Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160
  - 2GB RAM

-Mike


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 10 Dec 2008 10:32:07
Message: <493fe0f7@news.povray.org>
SharkD wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>> Please read the message below, it is still valid except for he moderation part:
>>
>> From: Alan Kong <ako### [at] povrayWWWSPAMCOMorg>
>> Newsgroups: povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
>> Subject: bug reporting
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:32:49 -0700
>> Message-ID: <fpupiu02i1198jbb38i3o06hv6is1a3uar@4ax.com>
>> XX-Trace: news.povray.org 1026358356 12.246.79.48 (10 Jul 2002 23:32:36
>> Xref: news.povray.org povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions:50
>>
>>  Thorsten, POV-Team
> 
> * The problem affects beta 29.
> * I've observed the problem on two computers.
> * Computer #1:
>   - Windows XP Home
>   - AMD Sempron 3000
>   - 1.5GB RAM
> * Computer #2:
>   - Windows Vista Home Premium
>   - Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160
>   - 2GB RAM

The specs are nice, but how about:
- A complete description of the problem and what led up to it. It
will make it a lot easier to track down if you can include a scene
file that will enable us to duplicate the problem. Please remove
non-essential parts until you have the *minimum* scene file that will
reproduce the problem (but do include your camera and light source!).

That would really, really help...

	Thorsten


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 10 Dec 2008 13:00:00
Message: <web.494002a7eec8960f2c4b57320@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> The specs are nice, but how about:
> - A complete description of the problem and what led up to it. It
> will make it a lot easier to track down if you can include a scene
> file that will enable us to duplicate the problem. Please remove
> non-essential parts until you have the *minimum* scene file that will
> reproduce the problem (but do include your camera and light source!).
>
> That would really, really help...
>
>  Thorsten

Well, the details leading up to the problem are that when I click "Render",
about half the time I get one of those two errors. The file itself is generated
using a program called L3P, and little hand editing has been done to it.

I'm not sure I could upload a scene file, as the scene makes use of dozens of
include files.

-Mike


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From: Roman
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 28 Dec 2008 06:45:00
Message: <web.4957658aeec8960f4d3e17860@news.povray.org>
I can confirm this issue.

Subject of the problem as I experience it is the following stand-alone scene
file: http://other.tt-ms.de/scene1.pov
It's a minimalized variant of Gilles Tran's glasses
(http://www.oyonale.com/modeles.php?page=40) with higher radiosity quality
settings.

I'm using Windows Vista x64 on a Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 with 4GB RAM.

When I duplicate the scene file (--> scene2.pov) and load these two files into
the render queue of POV-Ray 3.7 beta 29 64bit for Windows and start to render,
the following happens:

The first image renders correctly, an output image is written to disk. But all
subsequent files in the queue (in this case just scene2.pov, which is just the
same as scene1.pov) fail to render:
Parse error: Cannot open input file.

The problem can be reproduced arbitrarily often, by just restarting the
rendering queue. It also occurs after reinstalling POV-Ray, rebooting etc.

The image resolution seems to be irrelevant, so a quick rendering with just
[160x120, No AA] should already reproduce this issue.

Deactivating radiosity solves the problem, AND SO DOES REDUCING THE RADIOSITY
COUNT TO ABOUT 200 OR FURTHER REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SCENE!

This problem prevents automated rendering with high quality radiosity settings
and therefore puts my current rendering project to a halt....
See also
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3Cweb.49564f316561fd8b4d3e17860%40news.povray.org%3E
for more details.


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From: Roman
Subject: Re: Bug with renderer quitting for no reason
Date: 28 Dec 2008 06:50:00
Message: <web.49576753eec8960f4d3e17860@news.povray.org>
I can confirm this issue.

Subject of the problem as I experience it is the following stand-alone scene
file: http://other.tt-ms.de/scene1.pov
It's a minimalized variant of Gilles Tran's glasses
(http://www.oyonale.com/modeles.php?page=40) with higher radiosity quality
settings.

I'm using Windows Vista x64 on a Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 with 4GB RAM.

When I duplicate the scene file (--> scene2.pov) and load these two files into
the render queue of POV-Ray 3.7 beta 29 64bit for Windows and start to render,
the following happens:

The first image renders correctly, an output image is written to disk. But all
subsequent files in the queue (in this case just scene2.pov, which is just the
same as scene1.pov) fail to render:
Parse error: Cannot open input file.

The problem can be reproduced arbitrarily often, by just restarting the
rendering queue. It also occurs after reinstalling POV-Ray, rebooting etc.

The image resolution seems to be irrelevant, so a quick rendering with just
[160x120, No AA] should already reproduce this issue.

Deactivating radiosity solves the problem, AND SO DOES REDUCING THE RADIOSITY
COUNT TO ABOUT 200 OR FURTHER REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SCENE!

This problem prevents automated rendering with high quality radiosity settings
and therefore puts my current rendering project to a halt....
See also
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3Cweb.49564f316561fd8b4d3e17860%40news.povray.org%3E
for more details.


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