That's really strange, I've never heard of that before. Usually it will have OpenGL or graphics-related problems and not start at all, but I've never heard of it crashing after a few interactions. Can you verify your OpenGL drivers are installed properly? Can you run the OpenGL test programs successfully, i.e. something like xgears?
Maybe you should try a clean install of freesurfer. I don't see why that would make a difference, but since you had trouble with the update, maybe something else is still wrong. You could do this by moving your current freesurfer/ directory to something like freesurfer-old/, downloading a full install snapshot, extracting _only_ the freesurfer.tar.gz file into a new freesurfer/ directory, and moving your old subjects directory into the new freesurfer/ directory. On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Kay Bente wrote: > Hi, > I have quite some problems after doing an update. > First of all, I had to copy the new files by hand over my old installation, because > using the UpdateSnapshot command didn�t do anything. So maybe something went wrong > there. After the update the problem with the save point was fixed. but now the > tkmedit shuts himself down, either at once or after a few clicks with the following > message > > X Error of failed request: 248 > Major opcode of failed request: 139 (GLX) > Minor opcode of failed request: 108 (X_GLXFinish) > Serial number of failed request: 54 > Current serial number in output stream: 54 > > Command Finished > > and the surfer first draws the surface very slow in greyscale without texture, then > gives the following message > > tksurfer: run tcl script: /tmp/TmpTclSurf.13688 > surfer: ### GL window already open: can't open second > surfer: curvature read: min=-9.200959 max=101.319511 > > and after that he draws the surface again, but this time in color, like normally > > so if anyone has an idea ;-) > > with regards > Kay Bente > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! > Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter > http://mail.giantcompany.com > > -- Kevin Teich
