Tag: error

OpenCV error on cvShowImage not declared

Problem

I tried to compile some code that uses OpenCV and got this error:

foo.cpp:275:25: error: ‘cvShowImage’ was not declared in this scope
foo.cpp:532:29: error: ‘cvSaveImage’ was not declared in this scope
foo.cpp:556:45: error: ‘cvLoadImage’ was not declared in this scope

That is, the compiler is not able to find the declarations of cvShowImage, cvSaveImage and cvLoadImage. This code used to compile without errors in older versions of OpenCV.

Solution

In newer versions of OpenCV, these declarations are in the highgui.h header file and it needs to be explicitly included:

#include <opencv/highgui.h>

Tried with: OpenCV 2.4.9 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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OpenCV error constructing Mat from IplImage

Problem

Tried to compile some code that uses OpenCV and got this error:

foo.cpp:268:27: error: no matching function for call to ‘cv::Mat::Mat(IplImage*&)’

The code at that error line tries to construct a cv::Mat object from IplImage:

void boohoo(IplImage* i)
{
    // ...
    abracadabra(cv::Mat(i));
    // ...
}

Solution

It turns out this code worked in older versions of OpenCV. But with recent versions of OpenCV, this cv::Mat constructor is no longer present.

Instead, the conversion has to be performed using a cv::cvarrToMat function:

void boohoo(IplImage* i)
{
    // ...
    abracadabra(cv::cvarrToMat(i));
    // ...
}

Tried with: OpenCV 2.4.9 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

XINPUT1_4.dll is missing error

Problem

I compiled a C++ solution with Visual Studio Express 2012. The compilation was successful. But, when I try to run the program, it gives this error:

---------------------------
foo.exe - System Error
---------------------------
The program can't start because XINPUT1_4.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

Solution

I searched my computer for XINPUT1_4.dll and could not find it. There were other related DLL files: xinput1_1.dll, xinput1_2.dll and xinput1_3.dll, but not this file.

The solution is to find out if the solution is linking with xinput.lib. This might be either in the Project Properties or in the code itself using a pragma comment(lib, …) directive. Either way, change this to the specific version of the lib file found in your computer. On my system, I found the Xinput9_1_0.lib and changed my code to this.

After compiling the solution again, the program executed successfully.

Tried with: Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop and Windows 7 x64

algorithm.sty not found error in LaTeX

If you use the algorithm package in your LaTeX document, you might get this error on compiling it:

LaTeX Error: File `algorithm.sty' not found.

On Ubuntu, this LaTeX package is bundled in the texlive-science package. Install this package and the error should be gone:

$ sudo apt-get install texlive-science

Tried with: Ubuntu 14.04

File too large error on AFS

Problem

You might get this error when you create a file or copy some files in a AFS filesystem: File too large

Solution

This error message is misleading because I found that the file I was creating or copying was not large at all. In fact, an attempt to create an empty file also gave this error!

On investigation, I found that this error happens because the AFS filesystem seems to have a limit of 64435 files in any given directory. If your AFS directory already has this many files, any attempt to create or copy over a file gives the above error.

One possible solution is to archive the files using tar and copy that archive file to AFS.

Tried with: OpenAFS 1.6.1-1 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

A strange error on running Python script at the shell

Problem

I have a Python script named foo.py. Since, I would like to run it directly from the shell, I have added a shebang to run it through Python:

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Hello world"

If I run it directly at the shell, I get a strange error:

$ ./foo.py
: No such file or directory

However, if I run it explicitly with the Python interpreter, it works fine:

$ python foo.py
Hello world

Solution

This strange error turned out to be due to the newline markers in the file. The file was created on Windows and had CR+LF as the newline marker. But, I was running the script on Linux, which only uses LF as the newline marker.

So, this must have led the env program to run the character CR as a command. And obviously, it could not find any such file or directory.

The solution is simple. Convert the newline markers in the file to that of the host system, in this case to Linux. This can be done easily in Vim by using the fileformat option.

Tried with: GNU CoreUtils 8.12.197, Python 2.7.3 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

EPStoPDF file not found error on Ubuntu

Problem

A LaTeX document that compiled with pdflatex without errors on Windows using MikTeX was failing with this error on Ubuntu:

Package epstopdf Warning: Shell escape feature is not enabled.
! Package pdftex.def Error: File `foobar-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found.

The document used the epstopdf package to include EPS figures. A foobar.eps figure that is included in the document would be converted to a PDF file named foobar-eps-converted-to.pdf. The inclusion of foobar.eps in the document was giving this error on Ubuntu.

Solution

It turns out that epstopdf converts the included EPS document to PDF at compile time. This requires a feature of pdflatex called shell escape. This seems to be enabled in MikTeX on Windows, but disabled in Ubuntu. The error went away on enabling the shell escape feature manually while compiling the document:

$ pdflatex --shell-escape main.tex

Tried with: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

Font expansion error in LaTeX

Problem

I had a LaTeX document that was compiling without errors under both Windows and Ubuntu systems. When a friend tried to compile it on their Ubuntu system using pdflatex, it spewed this strange error:

! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts

Solution

The error was strange because it gave no clue how to solve it. It turns out that the LaTeX installation on that particular Ubuntu system did not have scalable fonts. The common solution seems to be to install the cm-super package which has scalable fonts that can be used by LaTeX. On installing this package and recompiling the document, the error went away.

Tried with: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

/casper/vmlinuz file not found error on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.2 LTS installation

Problem

I wanted to install Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.2 LTS on a 64-bit computer. I downloaded the ISO files using BitTorrent and created a USB flash drive installer. On booting from this USB flash drive, I got this error:

/casper/vmlinuz: file not found

Solution

The fix turns out to be simple. Remove the USB flash drive, reboot back to Windows and plug it back in. In the casper directory of the flash drive, there is a file vmlinuz.efi. Remove its extension to rename it to vmlinuz. Try the installation again, it should work.

Tried with: Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.2 LTS