Harry,

For me ALL of the control point generators fail and result in the "Failed to kill process" message on this PPC G4 running 10.5.8 since beyond the release 2010.0.0 and svn5031. For example this happens on svn5093 and svn5120 for my simple two image Hugintest project where it does not happen for 2010.0.0 and svn5031. Svn5120 and svn5093 function just fine on intel Macs running 10.5.8. I never mentioned it because I was not sure what was really happening and I figured others would see it and you would have fixed it. Plus my last few comments were premature.

I have not looked into the problem very much. I think I can say that Autopano-sift-C seems to end its process with a message I have never seen before. The message may be normal and that it now persists for me to read it. The Panomatic process ends with "--- Write output --- Detection took x.xxx seconds." This all seems very familiar. Did we not have this problem a while back?

Allan


On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Harry van der Wolf wrote:

Hi Eric,

With regard to patfree-panomatic: This one obviously crashes on G4. I had one report from another G4 user and I asked the community for more response whether it crashed for them as well. You are now the second user with a crash report. This confirms that it has to be fixed. I already checked it but haven't found it yet.

For the other two patented CP detectors panomatic and autopano-sift- C: They are not delivered with the bundle, due to the license restrictions on the used algorithms. You need to download and install them. Read the readme inside the dmg you downloaded, or read the page on <http://panorama.dyndns.org/index.php?lang=EN&subject=Hugin&texttag=Hugin >. They both describe simply what to do.

Harry


2010/4/10 Eric O'Brien <eri...@extramonday.com>
So, I'm trying to get control points automatically generated.

I've used both the "Align..." button in the Assistant tab and the "Create control points" button in the Images tab, but the result is the same: all three (patfree-panomatic, panomatic and Autopano-SIFT- C) fail. I'm running Hugin version "Hugin 2010.1.0-vsn5102(Mac)." The Machine is a rather old G4 Power Macintosh, with a dual processor upgrade, but it's still a PPC computer. The OS version is OS X 10.5.8.

Trying to start simply, I'm using 9 full-frame fisheye input images. 1200 x 1793 px. 16-bit TIFFs, saved in portrait orientation. I used the "Mask" feature on the two nadir images.

I first try "patfree-panomatic"..

This one explicitly crashes. (I'll be happy to post or send the full crash report somewhere... just didn't want to fill this message with it.)


   Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
   Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000008


After which, the "finding control points" window cannot be closed. [From now on I'll call this the "FCP Window"] Pressing "Cancel" results in message "Hugin Error - Failed to kill process 35432, error 3: no such process."

Well I suppose that if a control point generator crashes, then maybe that process would no longer exist. But if so, shouldn’t whatever's driving the FCP window be aware (or be made aware) of this fact and respond in a more reasonable way to the "Cancel" button?

As it is, I have to Force Quit Hugin to escape from the sitution.

(If using the Assitant tab,behind the FCP window I see another window named "Aliging image" - "Finding corresponding points" <empty progress bar> "Elapsed time: 0:00:00")


Try Autopano-SIFT-C

Appears to succeed, with last few lines in "finding control points" window reading

Creating output file "/var/folders/Hg/HgTVbhBpG7GpGWUU2vjMhE++ +TI/-Tmp-/ap_reshKdo2t"

   You can now load the output file into hugin.
Notice: guessed image format and field-of-view, please check and adjust.


But the same problem occurs trying to close the "finding control points" window. (A different process number is reported, of course.)

By the way, why is it "guessing" the image format and FoV? The source files have EXIF data in them and I set a "lens" for the images on the Camera and Lens tab.


Try Panomatic.

Also appears to succeed (last two lines read "--- Write output --- ... Detection took 73.514 seconds."), but again the FCP window stays up and "Cancel" fails. I must Force Quit Hugin. No control points exist in the project when I re-open it.

Any ideas on what I should do next?

By the way, when this works correctly what IS supposed to happen? Does the FCP window just close?

Thanks,

eo

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