imagemagick/montage problem

[Joerg van den Hoff]

Mark Duling wrote:
> Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff at fz-rossendorf.de> on Tuesday, October
> 24, 2006 at 5:52 AM -0800 wrote:
>> hi everybody,
>>
>> attempting to use `montage' from teh imageMagick package with something
>> like
>>
>> 
>>
>> leads to a crash with the error message
>>
>> magick/cache.c:2385: failed assertion `cache_info->number_views != 0UL'
>>
>> this is with version ImageMagick 6.2.7 08/29/06 installed in the 'old' 
>> darwinports times, but this seems to be the current version, still.
>>
>> I tried the same with the most recent version provided via fink (6.1.8 
>> 08/28/06): there, everything runs smoothly.
>>
>>
>> any ideas appreciated.
> 
> 6.2.9-8 is current for ImageMagick.  Sounds like you haven't done a 'port
> selfupdate' in awhile.  See if the new version fixes it.
> 
> Mark
> 


thanks a lot. fact is, port `montage -version' yielded 6.2.7 _and_ `port 
outdated' did _not_ list imagemagick so I thought everything was fine 
(`port selfupdate' told me that everything was up to date). but 
nevertheless `port info imagemagick' reported 6.2.9.8 as current 
version, no idea why `port' did not list imagemagick as outdated.

anyway, I now uninstalled/cleaned imagemagick and reinstalled, so now 
6.2.9.8 is running.

but the problem with montage persists, only slightly different:

montage -tile 2x2 i1.png i2.png i3.png i4.png

now simply gives a Bus error. the tail of the `ktrace' output reads

   ...
   8300 montage  CALL  open(0xbfff7778,0,0x30fde0)
   8300 montage  NAMI  "/opt/local/share/ImageMagick-6.2.9/type.xml"
   8300 montage  RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
   8300 montage  CALL  open(0xbfff7778,0,0x30fde0)
   8300 montage  NAMI  "/Users/vdh/.magick/type.xml"
   8300 montage  RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
   8300 montage  CALL  open(0xbfff7778,0,0x30fde0)
   8300 montage  NAMI  "type.xml"
   8300 montage  RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
   8300 montage  PSIG  SIGBUS SIG_DFL

which to me only shows that  some file `type.xml' is nowhere found but 
seems to be needed to procede ...

any more hints?


regards,
joerg