Hi Ryan

what is your SUBJECTS_DIR? You probably want it to be somewhere other than $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects as it is trying to create a symlink.

cheers Bruce On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Ryan wrote:

Hello all,    I'm encountering a problem when I try to compare two timepoints for a particular subject. I run the command "recon-all -all -s 7107-46-tp1 -i 7107-46-1/001.mgz" and the end of the output stream where I receive errors shows the following below. Any help is greatly appreciated!

painting output onto subject 7107-46-tp1. processing subject lh.EC_average... MRISread(/media/raid/freesurfer/subjects/lh.EC_average/surf/lh.sphere.reg): could not open file eroding label 1 times before writing thresholding label stat at 0.400 before writing Too many levels of symbolic links mris_spherical_average: could not read surface file /media/raid/freesurfer/subjects/lh.EC_average/surf/lh.sphere.r$ Too many levels of symbolic links Linux mriserver.archlab 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:09:49 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

recon-all -s 7107-46-tp1 exited with ERRORS at Sat Feb 25 02:34:14 EST 2012

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-Ryan