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.

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"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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Being a bit more specific about the version of POV might help people willing to
help you. Are you talking about 3.6, or 3.7 beta? Which one precisely?

When did you last run POV that version of POV successfully? What changes did you
(knowingly) do to your system since then?

You may also try posting again in povray.general or, maybe even better in this
case, povray.macintosh; This newsgroup - povray.bugreports - is (afaik)
intended for reporting definitive, confirmed bugs in official POV releases. As
of now, all that is known is that the two of you have a common problem, which
may or may not be due to a real POV bug.

Also note that the current 3.7 beta releases for the Mac, although sanctioned by
the POV team, are not officially supported by them, so if we're talking about
such a version, you should instead contact the person who built that binary. I
guess he's reading povray.macintosh on a regular basis, too.

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Being a bit more specific about the version of POV might help people willing to
> help you. Are you talking about 3.6, or 3.7 beta? Which one precisely?
>
> When did you last run POV that version of POV successfully? What changes did you
> (knowingly) do to your system since then?
>
> You may also try posting again in povray.general or, maybe even better in this
> case, povray.macintosh; This newsgroup - povray.bugreports - is (afaik)
> intended for reporting definitive, confirmed bugs in official POV releases. As
> of now, all that is known is that the two of you have a common problem, which
> may or may not be due to a real POV bug.
>
> Also note that the current 3.7 beta releases for the Mac, although sanctioned by
> the POV team, are not officially supported by them, so if we're talking about
> such a version, you should instead contact the person who built that binary. I
> guess he's reading povray.macintosh on a regular basis, too.

I am using this version:
POV-Ray Mac 3.6
dated Aug 1, 2004 7:23 pm
and downloaded directly from the povray site


I believe the last time it that POV ran successfully would be 15 March 2009.  As
jmcfizix noted in his/her post, I also know of NO changes I made to my system
between that time and when it stopped working, which was about a week later.
Obviously something changed, but I do not know what.

I will try to post at povray.macintosh too.

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