Thanks Lunhao, I will follow up with you temporarily off-list to test some things out. Andrew

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Shen Lunhao lunhao0104@hotmail.com Reply-To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Date: Monday, November 23, 2020 at 1:27 AM To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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The following is the information of four systems. System #3 and #4 are same configuration where license error occurred. #1 #2 #3 #4 Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 Intel i7 AMD R9 5900X AMD R9 5900X Mem 32GB 16GB 32GB 32GB Platform Linux version 4.15.0-112-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-027) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)) Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04 Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04 Window subsystem for linux(WSL2) + Ubuntu20.04 Worked Worked Didn’t work Didn’t work The freesurfer package I used is freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0which downloaded from freesurfer website. The license file was four lines type. Hope this information is helpful.

Thanks, Lunhao

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 代表 Hoopes, Andrew AHOOPES@mgh.harvard.edu Date: 2020年11月21日 1:19 Reply-To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Hi Lunhao,

Interesting. Can you provide some details on the configurations where this worked? Were you using the same linux subsystem and windows versions?

thanks

Andrew

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Shen Lunhao lunhao0104@hotmail.com Reply-To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Date: Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2:44 AM To: FS Help freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] License error on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Hello FreeSurfer Developers,

I'm attempting to use freesurfer 5.3.0 on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 20.04), but I got license error message as described below:

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ERROR: Invalid FreeSurfer license key found in license file /space/tools/freesurfer/5.3.0/license.txt

If you are outside the NMR-Martinos Center,

go to http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu to

get a valid license file (it's free).

If you are inside the NMR-Martinos Center,

make sure to source the standard environment.

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I tried with the same 5.3.0 packages and same license file on four different computers, and two of them work well with the other two got similar license error. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to trouble-shoot this one?

1) FreeSurfer version: freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0

2) Platform: Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 20.04)

3) uname -a: Linux DESKTOP-SJ2K1B2 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #488-Microsoft Mon Sep 01 13:43:00 PST 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Best, Lunhao