Here is the hack I use, taken from Krish's previous post.  I hope this helps:

cd $SUBJECTS_DIR
    recon-all -s <subject> -label_v1
    /usr/local/freesurfer4.5/freesurfer/bin/mris_spherical_average -osurf v1.invivo.reg -n -o <subject> label rh.v1.invivo.label rh v1.invivo.reg V1_average ./<subject>/label/rh.V1.prob.label
    /usr/local/freesurfer4.5/freesurfer/bin/mris_spherical_average -osurf v1.invivo.reg -n -o <subject> label lh.v1.invivo.label lh v1.invivo.reg V1_average ./<subject>/label/lh.V1.prob.label
    threshold_labelfile_at_0p8 ./<subject>/label/lh.V1.prob.label ./<subject>/label/lh.V1.predict.label
    threshold_labelfile_at_0p8 ./<subject>/label/rh.V1.prob.label ./<subject>/label/rh.V1.predict.label
    mris_anatomical_stats -l ./<subject>/label/lh.V1.predict.label <subject> lh >> ./<subject>/stats/hinds_V1_lh
    mris_anatomical_stats -l ./<subject>/label/rh.V1.predict.label <subject> rh >> ./<subject>/stats/hinds_V1_rh

Andrew





On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
try symlinking the ?h.white surfaces to the ?h.smoothwm and see if that solves your problem

cheers
Bruce

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Anders Hougaard wrote:

Dear Dr. Bock,
I get the same error in FS 5.1.0 when running  recon-all -s <subject>
-label_v1.

Did you find a solution?

Best regards,

Anders Hougaard, MD
Danish Headache Center
Dept. of Neurology
Glostrup Hospital
Copenhagen
Denmark

2011/11/11 Andrew Bock <abock@u.washington.edu>
     Hello,

     I am having a similar problem to one described on the freesurfer
     mail archive, where I receive the following error when trying to
     identify V1 using the Hinds method (i.e. recon-all -s <subject>
     -label_v1):

     processing subject V1_average...
     MRISreadVertexPosition(white): could not open file
     /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/V1_average/surf/rh.white
     No such file or directory
     MRISreadOriginalProperties: could not read surface file white
     No such file or directory
     could not read surface positions from white
     No such file or directory


     As Prof. Krish Singh indicated in July, it appears the problem
     occurs when trying to open rh.white (or lh.white) from the surf
     subdirectory in V1_average, which doesn't exist.

     I have run recon-all -s <subject> -make all, but it returns
     "make: Nothing to be done for `all'."

     Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

     Thanks in advance,

     Andrew

     --
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     Department of Psychology
     University of Washington
     Seattle, WA 98195
     Tel: 206.543.3817
     Fax: 206.685.3157
     abock@u.washington.edu

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