Opened 18 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#972 closed defect (fixed)

gdal_merge pukes with -co "compress=lzw"

Reported by: matt.wilkie@… Owned by: warmerdam
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: GDAL_Raster Version: unspecified
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by hobu)

It appears gdal_merge.py doesn't like the compress option but the error message
doesn't say so. I've only tred with lzw compression.

Symptoms: 

On windows within 10 or 15 seconds of running 'gdal_merge -o out.tif -co
"compress=lzw" %indems%" the standard MS dialog pops up saying so-n-so has
crashed and would you like to send a bug report to MS-HQ. If you shorten the
input list to 2 files, it works. (each input file is a 9mb CDED dem.)

On linux the error is more like "/usr/local/fwtools/bin_safe/gdal_merge.py: line
9:  3865 Segmentation fault $FWTOOLS_HOME/bin/`basename $TARGET` $@"

both windows and linux are using recent versions of fwtools. There is 1gb ram on
the win machine and 768 on the linux one.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by matt.wilkie@…, 18 years ago

I forgot to say that if the compress option is removed it works. :)
and just for the heck of it I tried packbits and so far that seems to be okay
(been running for about 10 minutes now).

comment:2 by matt.wilkie@…, 18 years ago

After about 20 min the packbits test crashed with:

ERROR 1: crashtest2.tif:PackBitsDecode: Not enough data for scanline 302
ERROR 1: TIFFReadEncodedStrip() failed.

ERROR 1: IReadBlock failed at X offset 0, Y offset 302
ERROR 1: GetBlockRef failed at X block offset 0, Y block offset 302
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\local\fwtools\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 478, in ?
    fi.copy_into( t_fh, band, band, nodata )
  File "c:\local\fwtools\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 288, in copy_into
    nodata_arg )
  File "c:\local\fwtools\bin\gdal_merge.py", line 123, in raster_copy
    data, t_xsize, t_ysize, t_band.DataType )
  File "c:\local\fwtools\pymod\gdal.py", line 863, in WriteRaster
    buf_string, buf_xsize, buf_ysize,buf_type)
TypeError: GetBlockRef failed at X block offset 0, Y block offset 302

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input file list was 152 files, occupying 1.5gb. the output.tif, as much of it as
got created, is 4.1gb. Free disk space: 2.3gb.

Using the same input list on a linux machine, but not using any compression,
completed successfully and created an output file of 556mb.



comment:6 by hobu, 17 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Can we close this one as a duplicate of #1470?

comment:7 by warmerdam, 17 years ago

Priority: highnormal
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Matt,

This should be working now. Please re-open if it doesn't work with the most recent FWTools.

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