Thanks Lunhao, I will follow up with you temporarily off-list to test some things out.

Andrew

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Shen Lunhao <lunhao0104@hotmail.com>
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Date: Monday, November 23, 2020 at 1:27 AM
To: FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Hi Andrew,

The following is the information of four systems. System #3 and #4 are same configuration where license error occurred.

	#1	#2	#3	#4
Core	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620	Intel i7	AMD R9 5900X	AMD R9 5900X
Mem	32GB	16GB	32GB	32GB
Platform	Linux version 4.15.0-112-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-027) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04))	Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04	Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04	Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04
	Worked	Worked	Didn’t work	Didn’t work

The freesurfer package I used is freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0which downloaded from freesurfer website. The license file was four lines type. Hope this information is helpful.

Thanks,

Lunhao

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 代表 Hoopes, Andrew <AHOOPES@mgh.harvard.edu>

Date: 2020年11月21日 1:19
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Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Hi Lunhao,

Interesting. Can you provide some details on the configurations where this worked? Were you using the same linux subsystem and windows versions?

thanks

Andrew

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Shen Lunhao <lunhao0104@hotmail.com>
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Date: Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2:44 AM
To: FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Hello FreeSurfer Developers,
 
I'm attempting to use freesurfer 5.3.0 on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 20.04), but I got license error message as described below:
 
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ERROR: Invalid FreeSurfer license key found in license file /space/tools/freesurfer/5.3.0/license.txt

  If you are outside the NMR-Martinos Center,

  go to http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu to

  get a valid license file (it's free).

  If you are inside the NMR-Martinos Center,

  make sure to source the standard environment.

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I tried with the same 5.3.0 packages and same license file on four different computers, and two of them work well with the other two got similar license error. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to trouble-shoot this one? 
 
1) FreeSurfer version: freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0
2) Platform: Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 20.04)
3) uname -a: Linux DESKTOP-SJ2K1B2 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #488-Microsoft Mon Sep 01 13:43:00 PST 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Best,
Lunhao