imagemagick/montage problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 25, 2006, at 05:19, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> Citando Joerg van den Hoff :

[snip]

>> 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".

It doesn't look like that's where montage searches for it. type.xml  
exists in /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.2.9/config but the trace above  
shows that montage is looking for it in /opt/local/share/ 
ImageMagick-6.2.9

> Moreover, if I put this file in '.', the lines before SIGBUS signal a
> success. So the bus error is not due to this file.

I think I agree... the command given above (montage -tile 2x2 i1.png  
i2.png i3.png i4.png) completes successfully for me with the same  
ImageMagick version. I didn't see what architecture you're on; I'm on  
PowerPC.

Note that the command tiles the images i1.png, i2.png and i3.png, and  
writes the result to i4.png.

Perhaps the crash has to do with the specific images you're using. If  
you want to send me the images (off-list if you like) I'll see if I  
can reproduce the crash then.