Re: gEDA-user: PCB drill file question

[Rick Collins <gnuarm.2007@xxxxxxxxx>]

This conversation has already happened.

To recap...

Windows 2000 SP4 on Athlon 1600+ (yes, a 5 year old machine)
latest version of gerbv, 2.0.1
Opening gerber files makes it crash
It craps out to Windows with a memory protection error (null pointer)

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Gerber Viewer2.0.1: : gerbv.exe - Application Error
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The instruction at "0x6b067700" referenced memory at "0x00000000". 
The memory could not be "read".


Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program
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OK   Cancel
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I can open some Gerber files, but not others.  It will let me save a 
"project", but I can't open it.  Well, I *can* open it, but nothing 
shows up on the screen and it doesn't seem to report any errors.

I sent my files to someone who offered to take a look to see at a 
minimum if he could duplicate the error.  I have not heard anything 
back (that I remember anyway).

Do you want the files?

Rick


At 05:10 PM 5/7/2008, you wrote:
> >>> The output from FreePCB includes comments to indicate all of the
> >>> details of the drill tools.  Sometimes reloading this info into GC
> >>> Preview confuses it and it reads the comments as drills.
> >>
> >> This is a totally OT question, but I wonder:  Have you tried looking
> >> at the output of your FreePCB files using gerbv?
> >>
> > I only wish I could, but gerbv crashes on my machine.  Don't know if
> > this will be getting fixed any time soon.
>
>That's bad news!
>
>Ummmm, the crash won't get fixed any time soon unless you report it to
>the developers.  Can you please tell us:
>
>Details about your machine (Linux? Windows? 32 or 64 bit?)
>
>Which Linux distro or Windows version?
>
>Which version of gerbv are you using?   (FWIW, the current version is
>2.0.1, and I would not recommend using anything < 2.0.0.  Please
>upgrade if you're still using a 1.X version.)
>
>What did you do to make it crash?  (That is, does it crash on start
>up, or do you have a certain Gerber which makes it crash?)
>
>Any other relevant info?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stuart
>(Erstwhile gerbv developer)
>
>
>
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