[Neurodebian-users] bug in mipav

[Landman, Bennett A]

Yes. We definitely need to move to 5.3.0. The Mipav folks became non-backward compatible after 5.2.1. I really hope we can go open source. Creating these packages is a pain. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Yaroslav Halchenko [mailto:debian at onerussian.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 9:36 AM
To: Landman, Bennett A
Cc: neurodebian-users at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Neurodebian-users] bug in mipav

Hi Bennett,

long time no hear ;-)  Marco has reported an issue with MIPAV as installed with NeuroDebian's installer which downloads/installs mipav-5.0.0-2010-09-07.tar.gz . Do you recollect if such memory issue was ever mentioned/fixed so may be it is worth updating the package's installer to fetch newer release/snapshot?

P.S. Any news on freeing/open-sourcing MIPAV?

thanks in advance for the reply

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, marco tettamanti wrote:

> Dear neurodebian developers,
> I am encountering a problem with mipav installed from neurodebian. I 
> have the same problem on two different architectures:
> - a 64bit debian stable Linux bll1 2.6.32-marco #1 SMP Mon Feb 21
> 16:14:52 CET 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> - and a 32bit debian testing Linux bll4 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sun Jul 
> 24 14:27:32 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

> Basically, changes in the Memory Allocation (Maximum Heap Size), even 
> though they are perfomed as root, do not have any effects. The memory 
> limit displayed on top right of the menu bar remains around
> 245 M, independently of the allocated memory size.

> This is a big problem for memory consuming processes that will not be 
> performed due to insufficient memory allocation. I have not found any 
> workaround to the problem, which I didn't experience when dowloading 
> the Mipav installer directly from http://mipav.cit.nih.gov/.

> Can you please have a look at this?

> Thank you and very best wishes,
> Marco
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