Hi list,

I'm running :
recon-all -all -i $SUBJECTS_DIR/MPRAGE.nii.gz -subject $SUBJECTS_DIR/hptu_sub001
In bold the error that I'm visualizing:

Subject Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0
Current Stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-leopard-i686-stable-pub-v5.1.0
INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01
Actual FREESURFER_HOME /Applications/freesurfer
Darwin iMac-di-Stefano.local 12.2.1 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 12:13:47 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001
\n mri_convert /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/MPRAGE.nii.gz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig/001.mgz \n
mri_convert /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/MPRAGE.nii.gz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig/001.mgz 
$Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $
reading from /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/MPRAGE.nii.gz...
TR=1000.00, TE=0.00, TI=0.00, flip angle=0.00
i_ras = (-0.998454, 0.00426797, -0.0554224)
j_ras = (0.0151969, 0.980022, -0.198308)
k_ras = (-0.0534688, 0.198844, 0.978572)
writing to /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig/001.mgz...
#--------------------------------------------
#@# MotionCor Mon Feb  4 20:34:08 CET 2013
Found 1 runs
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig/001.mgz
Checking for (invalid) multi-frame inputs...
WARNING: only one run found. This is OK, but motion
correction cannot be performed on one run, so I'll
copy the run to rawavg and continue.
\n cp /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig/001.mgz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/rawavg.mgz \n
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001
\n mri_convert /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/rawavg.mgz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig.mgz --conform \n
mri_convert /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/rawavg.mgz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig.mgz --conform 
$Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $
reading from /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/rawavg.mgz...
TR=1000.00, TE=0.00, TI=0.00, flip angle=0.00
i_ras = (-0.998454, 0.00426797, -0.0554224)
j_ras = (0.0151969, 0.980022, -0.198308)
k_ras = (-0.0534688, 0.198844, 0.978572)
Original Data has (0.8, 2, 0.8) mm size and (320, 85, 320) voxels.
Data is conformed to 1 mm size and 256 voxels for all directions
changing data type from float to uchar (noscale = 0)...
MRIchangeType: Building histogram 
Reslicing using trilinear interpolation 
writing to /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig.mgz...
\n mri_add_xform_to_header -c /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/transforms/talairach.xfm /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig.mgz /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/orig.mgz \n
INFO: extension is mgz
#--------------------------------------------
#@# Talairach Mon Feb  4 20:34:17 CET 2013
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri
\n talairach_avi --i orig.mgz --xfm transforms/talairach.auto.xfm \n
\n cp transforms/talairach.auto.xfm transforms/talairach.xfm \n
#--------------------------------------------
#@# Talairach Failure Detection Mon Feb  4 20:34:49 CET 2013
/Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri
\n talairach_afd -T 0.005 -xfm transforms/talairach.xfm \n
talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm OK (p=0.4903, pval=0.1531 >= threshold=0.0050)
\n awk -f /Applications/freesurfer/bin/extract_talairach_avi_QA.awk /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/subject_prova/Diff01/hptu_sub001/mri/transforms/talairach_avi.log \n
TalAviQA: 0.96699
z-score: -2
#--------------------------------------------

 IFLAG= -1  LINE SEARCH FAILED. SEE DOCUMENTATION OF ROUTINE MCSRCH ERROR RETURN OF LINE SEARCH: INFO= 3 POSSIBLE CAUSES: FUNCTION OR GRADIENT ARE INCORRECT OR INCORRECT TOLERANCESoutof QuasiNewtonEMA: 008: -log(p) = 1145838.5  tol 0.000000
final transform:
 1.009   0.068   0.121  -29.003;
-0.086   0.984   0.166  -21.039;
-0.120  -0.163   1.074   15.915;
 0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;

writing output transformation to transforms/talairach_with_skull.lta...
registration took 14 minutes and 43 seconds.
\n mri_watershed -T1 -brain_atlas /Applications/freesurfer/average/RB_all_withskull_2008-03-26.gca transforms/talairach_with_skull.lta T1.mgz brainmask.auto.mgz \n

Mode:          T1 normalized volume
Mode:          Use the information of atlas (default parms, --help for details)
gcaAllocMax: node dims 64 64 64
gcaAllocMax: prior dims 128 128 128
gcaAllocMax: max_labels 0

*********************************************************
The input file is T1.mgz
The output file is brainmask.auto.mgz
Weighting the input with atlas information before watershed


********FINAL ITERATIVE TEMPLATE DEFORMATION********
Compute Local values csf/gray
Fine Segmentation...38 iterations

      mri_strip_skull: done peeling brain

Brain Size = 1931109 voxels, voxel volume = 1.000 mm3
           = 1931109 mmm3 = 1931.109 cm3



dt = 5.00e-06, momentum=0.80, tol=1.00e-05
l_intensity = 1.0000
Aligning input volume to GCA...
Transform matrix
 0.97624   0.08548   0.05852  -18.68727;
-0.08544   1.05705  -0.07489   3.31129;
-0.06540   0.06526   0.99572  -9.04030;
 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;
nsamples 2772
Quasinewton: input matrix
 0.97624   0.08548   0.05852  -18.68727;
-0.08544   1.05705  -0.07489   3.31129;
-0.06540   0.06526   0.99572  -9.04030;
 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;
 IFLAG= -1  LINE SEARCH FAILED. SEE DOCUMENTATION OF ROUTINE MCSRCH ERROR RETURN OF LINE SEARCH: INFO= 3 POSSIBLE CAUSES: FUNCTION OR GRADIENT ARE INCORRECT OR INCORRECT TOLERANCESoutof QuasiNewtonEMA: 007: -log(p) = 7093.2  tol 0.000010
Resulting transform:
 0.976   0.085   0.059  -18.687;
-0.085   1.057  -0.075   3.311;
-0.065   0.065   0.996  -9.040;
 0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;
**************************************************
 EM alignment process ...
 Computing final MAP estimate using 312841 samples. 
**************************************************
dt = 5.00e-06, momentum=0.80, tol=1.00e-07
l_intensity = 1.0000
Aligning input volume to GCA...
Transform matrix
 0.97624   0.08548   0.05852  -18.68727;
-0.08544   1.05705  -0.07489   3.31129;
-0.06540   0.06526   0.99572  -9.04030;
 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;
nsamples 312841
Quasinewton: input matrix
 0.97624   0.08548   0.05852  -18.68727;
-0.08544   1.05705  -0.07489   3.31129;
-0.06540   0.06526   0.99572  -9.04030;
 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;
dfp_em_step_func: 008: -log(p) = 844596.4
after pass:transform: ( 0.98, 0.09, 0.06, -18.69)
                      ( -0.08, 1.06, -0.07, 3.31)
                      ( -0.07, 0.06, 1.00, -9.04)
 IFLAG= -1  LINE SEARCH FAILED. SEE DOCUMENTATION OF ROUTINE MCSRCH ERROR RETURN OF LINE SEARCH: INFO= 3 POSSIBLE CAUSES: FUNCTION OR GRADIENT ARE INCORRECT OR INCORRECT TOLERANCESpass 2 through quasi-newton minimization...
 IFLAG= -1  LINE SEARCH FAILED. SEE DOCUMENTATION OF ROUTINE MCSRCH ERROR RETURN OF LINE SEARCH: INFO= 3 POSSIBLE CAUSES: FUNCTION OR GRADIENT ARE INCORRECT OR INCORRECT TOLERANCESoutof QuasiNewtonEMA: 010: -log(p) = 844596.4  tol 0.000000
final transform:
 0.984   0.092   0.065  -18.687;
-0.079   1.063  -0.069   3.311;
-0.066   0.064   0.996  -9.040;
 0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;



**************** pass 1 of 1 ************************
setting smoothness coefficient to 0.039
blurring input image with Gaussian with sigma=2.000...
0000: dt=0.000, rms=0.876, neg=0, invalid=766
gcamFindOptimalTimeStep: Complete in 18445.328 ms
0001: dt=129.472000, rms=0.781 (10.831%), neg=0, invalid=766
gcamFindOptimalTimeStep: Complete in 19654.701 ms
0002: dt=369.920000, rms=0.748 (4.319%), neg=0, invalid=766
gcamFindOptimalTimeStep: Complete in 19650.012 ms
0003: dt=129.472000, rms=0.730 (2.388%), neg=0, invalid=766
gcamFindOptimalTimeStep: Complete in 19766.332 ms
0004: dt=73.984000, rms=0.729 (0.156%), neg=0, invalid=766
0005: dt=73.984000, rms=0.726 (0.308%), neg=0, invalid=766
0006: dt=73.984000, rms=0.722 (0.547%), neg=0, invalid=766
0007: dt=73.984000, rms=0.718 (0.635%), neg=0, invalid=766
0008: dt=73.984000, rms=0.713 (0.737%), neg=0, invalid=766

Thanks,


Stefano