imagemagick/montage problem

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando 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.
> >>
> > [...]
> 
> 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 ...

It is found, exactly where it has been installed (and in the first place
montage searches): "/opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.2.9/config/type.xml".
Moreover, if I put this file in '.', the lines before SIGBUS signal a
success. So the bus error is not due to this file.

> 
> any more hints?
> 

Unfortunately, no

-- 
Emmanuel