Regarding my first question in my previous post below,
the same error occurs even when I run my script (containing many repetition
of mris_pmake command) on only one terminal window.

From: Jungwon Ryu [mailto:rjungwon@snu.ac.kr]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:11 PM
To: 'freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu'
Subject: Question on mris_pmake

Hi,

I'm trying to get distances on a cortical surface between sets of voxels in visual areas and I have two questions;

1) I have the following error message so often;

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System error: Address already in use

Fatal error encountered.

           SSocket `Unnamed SSocket_UDP_receive' (id: 0)

           Current function: c_SSocket_UDP_receive::c_SSocket_UDP_receive

           Problem binding to socket 1701

Error returned from system: Address already in use

Throwing exception to (this) with code 1

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'c_SSocket*'

runSh_Ori_1_02_01.sh: line 5789: 93334 Abort trap              mris_pmake --subject JR20110819 --hemi rh --surface0 white --curv0 sulc --curv1 sulc --mpmOverlay euclidean --mpmProg pathFind --mpmArgs startVertex:907,endVertex:731 >> result_Ori_1_02_01.txt

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I have around 10,000 voxel pairs to run mris_pmake( ) command. Since I have to call mris_pmake( ) so many times (one pair by one pair), I splitted the whole list of voxel pairs into four script files, containing many mris_pmake commands with 2,500 voxel pairs as arguments, then I ran scripts with four terminal windows saparately to parallelize the processing. All script files are located in the same diretory. Then I had the message as above. What might be the problem? (It seems as if multiple terminal instances share the socket port number)

2) How can I get interhemispheric distances between visual areas across hemispheres?

Ryu

PhD student

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,

Seoul National University, Korea