"Could not run the sketch (Target VM failed to initialize)."

drewhamilton

Hi All, I've been writing a program for projection mapping. I'm using PApplet.runSketch to run a program for each projector I have attached. Everything was working fantastically well for about a month, but just recently I started getting the error: "Could not run the sketch (Target VM failed to initialize)." Most of the changes I've made to the code recently are pretty simple little methods for scaling objects etc. I haven't fiddled much with how the Applets themselves are loaded etc.

If it is relevant, the sketch uses the following libraries: import deadpixel.keystone.*; import java.util.*; import controlP5.*; import processing.video.*; import spout.*; import javax.swing.JFileChooser; import point2line.*;

I would post the entire code, but it is really quite long.

Interestingly, things work fine for a second; the error usually occurs around 45 seconds to 2 minutes into running the sketch, at which point it crashes and dumps the following information:

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A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

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EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007fff26083def, pid=12912, tid=0x000000000000341c

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JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_102-b14) (build 1.8.0_102-b14)

Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.102-b14 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)

Problematic frame:

C [msvcrt.dll+0x73def]

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Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows

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An error report file with more information is saved as:

C:\Users\DREWHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\hs_err_pid12912.log

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If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:

http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp

The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.

See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

# Could not run the sketch (Target VM failed to initialize). For more information, read revisions.txt and Help ? Troubleshooting._

drewhamilton

The log file is much to long to post as text. If you would like to see that follow this...

http://www.pastebin.ca/3759035

drewhamilton

So, after torturing myself over hundreds of lines of code, I've found the culprit. For some reason CURSOR() does not want to work properly with multiple screens running. I will repost this as a bug, though I doubt it will ever bother anyone but myself...

kfrajer

Can you post a small sample code demonstrating the problem?

Kf

jeremydouglass

@drewhamilton -- thanks for submitting the issue.

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4852

Lord_of_the_Galaxy

Did you find any workarounds to solve your problem?

drewhamilton

I'd post some sample code, but it is waaay too long. The use of cursor() was fairly straightforward though. I'm certain it had something to do with invoking that with multiple pApplets. I ended up just removing the portion of my code that used cursor() and everything is working beautifully. I'll consider sharing the code when I finish the application.

-Drew

Lord_of_the_Galaxy

Oh, so you just removed cursor all together? Well, I guess then there would be no use of posting your code here. Maybe you could open another thread related to your complete code sometime else.