Hi -

Was there ever a solution found for this? I am currently having the same problem.

Thanks,

Jeff Thompson

Can you send us e recon-all.log file?



On Aug 8, 2011, at 4:30 AM, "Irwin, William" <WIrwin at memory.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi-
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> I’m at a bit of a loss as to how to address and/or fix these errors.
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> The native input images are very good quality; the conversion to T1.mgz is fine; the brainmask.mgz is good, a bit of dura remained at the parietal/occipital region (very common); otherwise, the skull stripping is very clean.
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> The recon-all “finished” but with errors as expected. Processing “continued” to the end, but there is no output except in /mri and /touch.
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> Doing: #@# Skull Stripping
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> First under “Computing MAP estimate using 3481 samples...”
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> 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: 005: -log(p) = 10327.2  tol 0.000010
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> Then several of the same under “EM alignment process ...”
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> 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...
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> 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 3 through quasi-newton minimization...
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> 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 4 through quasi-newton minimization...
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> 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 5 through quasi-newton minimization...
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> 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: 017: -log(p) = 1145822.4  tol 0.000000
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> Then again at “Computing MAP estimate using 2772 samples...”
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> 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: 009: -log(p) = 7006.0  tol 0.000010
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> 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...
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> 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: 013: -log(p) = 838978.4  tol 0.000000
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> Thanks,
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> Wil
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