I installed  virtualbox 4.2.8 and CentOS6 (kernel 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64). Got tkmedit and tksurfer working on CentOS VM. Recon-all starts and run for sometime but stop with errors a bit later. On bright side I noticed freeview works great both on centos VM and on Fedora 18. At your site, I read freeview may substitute tkmedit and tksurfer when the former come to offer all needed functionality. It follows the errors I got on recon-all.Thanks in advance for your help.

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recon-all -s bert -autorecon1
running loop to estimate saturation parameter:
A or b constain NAN or infinity values!!
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recon-all -s bert -all
talairach_avi --i orig_nu.mgz --xfm transforms/talairach.auto.xfm 
ERROR: mpr2mni305 failed, see transforms/talairach_avi.log

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The log indicated above shows:
imgrege: no voxels in register
ERROR: 'imgreg_4dfp /usr/local/freesurfer/average/711-2C_as_mni_average_305 /usr/local/freesurfer/average/711-2B_as_mni_average_305_mask talsrcimg_g11 none talsrcimg_to_711-2C_as_mni_average_305_t4 1283' failed! status=254
ERROR: mpr2mni305 execution aborted