Dear Freesurfer experts,

I'm using version 5.1 to segment some subjects, but I have one that is causing some troubles when executing the autorecon2 after some manual cleaning of non-brain tissue and some control points added, I always get the following error:

ERROR: _FindFacePath: could not find path!

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 06:23:23 GMT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

recon-all -s subj2_01_yr3_PEPA exited with ERRORS at Wed Feb  5 02:41:04 CET 2014


I have tried to open the surfaces in tksurfer, the lh.orig looks real weird, also if I try to open both surfaces (lh.white and lh.orig) in tkmedit it outputs the next error:

tkmedit subj2_01_yr3_PEPA brainmask.mgz lh.white -aux T1.mgz -aux-surface rh.white

Reading 640 control points...

Converting main surface: 100% done.

Converting main surface: 100% done.

mrisReadTriangleFile(/root/trabajo/freesurfer/subjects/subj2_01_yr3_PEPA/surf/lh.orig): surface doesn't match /root/trabajo/freesurfer/subjects/subj2_01_yr3_PEPA/surf/lh.white

No such file or directory

mrisReadTriangleFile failed.

No such file or directory


I have checked at the subj2_01_yr3_PEPA/surf folder and both surfaces exist. So, I don't have a clue on how to solve this.

Does anyone has an idea how to fix this problem?


Many thanks in advanced,
Gabriel