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Hello FreeSurfer Developers,

 

I’m attempting to run recon-all with synthstrip on v7.3.2. I get the following error each time:

 

reading transform from transforms/talairach.m3z

ERROR: cannot find or read transforms/talairach.m3z

error: No such file or directory

error: transforms/talairach.m3z: could not open transform

 

I’ve tried several variations of the command below, all of which failed at the same point:

 

export FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer/7.3.2

source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh

export FS_ALLOW_DEEP=1

recon-all -all -s freesurfer -i T1.nii -sd . -synthstrip -hires -openmp 20 -parallel

 

It seems that -careg is being skipped for some reason. The command progresses from -canorm to -calabel which then crashes. The status file does not show careg being called at all:

 

status file for recon-all

Fri Sep 30 16:19:18 BST 2022

#@# MotionCor Fri Sep 30 16:19:23 BST 2022

#@# Talairach Fri Sep 30 16:20:13 BST 2022

#@# Talairach Failure Detection Fri Sep 30 16:26:43 BST 2022

#@# Nu Intensity Correction Fri Sep 30 16:26:44 BST 2022

#@# Intensity Normalization Fri Sep 30 16:33:05 BST 2022

recon-all -s cluster finished without error at Fri Sep 30 16:37:38 BST 2022

#New# invocation of recon-all

status file for recon-all

Fri Sep 30 16:38:58 BST 2022

#@# EM Registration Fri Sep 30 16:38:58 BST 2022

#@# CA Normalize Fri Sep 30 16:42:24 BST 2022

#@# SubCort Seg Fri Sep 30 16:44:14 BST 2022

Linux chumbawumba 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #1237-Microsoft Sat Sep 11 14:32:00 PST 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

recon-all -s cluster exited with ERRORS at Fri Sep 30 16:44:29 BST 2022

 

I have got it to run by explicitly using the -careg flag:

 

                recon-all -all -s freesurfer -i T1.nii -sd . -synthstrip -careg -hires -openmp 24 -parallel

 

I also do not get this error if I omit -synthstrip.

 

Is there anything I’m missing here, a flag I should have specified etc.? Or is this just an unfortunate bug?

 

Thanks in advance!

Oliver

 

  1. FreeSurfer versions:
    1. freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_x86_64-7.3.2
    2. freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.3.2
    3. freesurfer-darwin-macos-7.3.2
  2. Platforms:
    1. WSL ubuntu 20.04
    2. HPC centos 7
    3. M1 Macos Montery 12.4
  3. recon-all.log: see attached