Hi Alex

if you upload the subject that is causing this problem I'll take a look. What version are you running and what OS?

cheers Bruce On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Alex Puckett wrote:

Hello!

I'm having trouble with mris_expand using the -thickness flag. ​If I expand by a fixed distance instead of % thickness then mris_expand works no problem -  the program seems to be hanging up when reading the thickness file. Has anyone else experienced this?

The command I'm running (from the surf folder) is:

mris_expand -thickness lh.white 0.5 lh.expandWhiteThick0p5

The output from this is: "​using distance as a % of thickness expanding surface lh.white by 50.0% of thickness and writing it to lh.expandWhiteThick0p5 reading thickness..."

And then...nothing! Watching the CPU usage it appears that resources are used for about 10 -12 minutes and then drops to 0 and just sits there for as long as I'll let it (>4 days) - no error.

Also, the thickness files do not appear to be corrupt. I can overlay the thickness data onto a surface no problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Alex

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FREESURFER_HOME: /usr/local/freesurfer

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RedHat release: CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)

Kernel info: Linux 3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64

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