Andrew,

Thank you for suggesting that. Turns out that's exactly what seems to have been the problem. Renamed the .license file and now things seem to be working. Not sure why there was even a .license file there, as I've been using license.txt as directed in the installation instructions and email with the license code, but oh well.

-Mike ________________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Hoopes, Andrew AHOOPES@mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:19:10 PM To: Freesurfer support list Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] A note about the Freesurfer license file

Hi Mike,

Is it possible that freesurfer is reading the wrong license file? What are you naming the new license as? FS could be reading a hidden “.license” file in FREESURFER_HOME instead.

best, Andrew

On Dec 7, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Angstadt, Mike mangstad@med.umich.edu wrote:

I am getting this same glibc message with Freesurfer 6. Unfortunately I have tried twice now to re-register and updated the license file to the new file that gets emailed to me, but I am still getting the same error. Any ideas what else I can try to troubleshoot this issue?

-Mike ________________________________________ From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Z K zkaufman@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 1:23:04 PM To: Freesurfer support list Subject: [Freesurfer] A note about the Freesurfer license file

Hello All,

Users on newer linux distributions who upgrade from Freesurfer version 5.3 to version 6.0 may get the following error message:

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GNU libc version: 2.17 ERROR: Systems running GNU glibc version greater than 2.15 require a newly formatted license file (it's free). Please download a new one from the following page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/registration.html

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This is a known issue, and as the message says, it is resolved by downloading a newly formatted license file from our registration page:

http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/registration.html

Simply overwrite the old license file with the newly formatted one. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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