[vtkusers] Re: "Bus error" in vtkPNGReader

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Fri Jun 2 15:15:03 EDT 2006


Randall,

	Here is what I would do (in order):

- On linux make sure everything is passing properly (run it through 
valgrind).
- Do a backtrace on Irix this might give you a clue on what the error 
could be.
- Last one, try to yank the error handling of png in vtkPNGReader (with 
the setjmp).

HTH
Mathieu

Randall Hand wrote:
> With a little more research, this seems to be something related to 
> Irix.  Using Paraview 2.4.3, I get the exact same error attempting to 
> read a PNG file.
> 
> I'm able to open it on linux & windows without any trouble.  Any idea 
> what's going on here?
> 
> On 6/2/06, *Randall Hand* <randall.hand at gmail.com 
> <mailto:randall.hand at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I've got some code to write PNG files to disk, and just tryed to
>     write something to read them back in with a vtkPNGReader, and i keep
>     getting a bus error.  The image loads fine in FireFox, ACDsee,
>     ImageMagick, Identify, & Convert.  I can convert the image to a TIF,
>     JPG, or BMP and those files load just fine.
> 
>     The files were written with VTK, the same version on the same
>     machine, yet it generates this error.  i've attached one of the
>     images to this email, and the backtrace is as follows:
> 
> 
>     (dbx)
>     Thread 0x10000
>     >  0 vtk_png_read_info(png_ptr = 0x1004ff98, info_ptr = 0x1005d1c8)
>     ["/viz/home/rhand/src/VTK/VTK-VolumeModified/Utilities/vtkpng/pngread.c":407,
>     0x8b20800]
>        1 vtkPNGReader::ExecuteInformation(void)(this = 0x100484e8)
>     ["/viz/home/rhand/src/VTK/VTK-VolumeModified/IO/vtkPNGReader.cxx":96,
>     0x7f19d5c]
>     (dbx)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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