that usually means that the surfaces are inconsistent. Try running

recon-all -make all

instead. That should figure out what needs rebuilding and do so

cheers Bruce

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, LAOUCHEDI MAKHLOUF wrote:

Hi    i run recon-all -autorecon3 on a normal subject and after a while, it exited with errors, looking in the SUBJECTS_DIR/subj/scripts/error.log and recon-all.error and recon-all.log i found the following messages :

error.log :

mrisReadTriangleFile(../surf/rh.smoothwm): surface doesn't match ../surf/rh.inflated

mrisReadTriangleFile failed.

MRISreadOriginalProperties: could not read surface file smoothwm

recon-all.error : . . . PWD /home_cluster/mlaouche/freesurf_makh/ctr5/scripts CMD mris_sphere -seed 1234 ../surf/rh.inflated ../surf/rh.sphere

recon-all.log :

mris_sphere -seed 1234 ../surf/rh.inflated ../surf/rh.sphere

setting seed for random number genererator to 1234 $Id: mris_sphere.c,v 1.57 2011/03/02 00:04:34 nicks Exp $   $Id: mrisurf.c,v 1.693.2.2 2011/04/27 19:21:05 nicks Exp $ reading original vertex positions... mrisReadTriangleFile(../surf/rh.smoothwm): surface doesn't match ../surf/rh.inflated

No such file or directory mrisReadTriangleFile failed.

No such file or directory MRISreadOriginalProperties: could not read surface file smoothwm No such file or directory Linux cn09 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 13 00:26:49 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

recon-all -s ctr5 exited with ERRORS at Mon Jun  3 11:38:58 CEST 2013

To report a problem, see http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BugReporting

thank you for your help