PTBatcherGUI Cannot Open Hugin File

[Mia Kramer]

MacOS 10.14.5 running Hugin 2019.0.0.

I created a new panorama with Hugin, then attempted to stitch it. When launching stitch from Hugin, PTBatcherGUI reports "error while parsing panotools script" but completely freezes and needs to be killed. When launching PTBatcherGUI separately and loading the same file, it reports the error but does not freeze. The full error is:

"error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/#-hugin cropFactor=1.4857143163681"

Since it's not frozen I'm able to open the details view which reports:

13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/#hugin_ptoversion 2
13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/#-hugin cropFactor=1.48571
13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/i w4024 h6024 f0 v=0 Ra=0 Rb=0 Rc=0 Rd=0 Re=0 Eev10.2406004359567 Er1 Eb1 r-1.90318737931975 p4.76859548345776 y19.0993349453589 TrX0.0102777188388254 TrY-0.00257256232339356 TrZ0.00389754071824751 Tpy19.7661661168532 Tpp4.75374351711646 j=0 a=0 b=0 c=0 d=0 e=0 g=0 t=0 Va=0 Vb=0 Vc=0 Vd=0 Vx=0 Vy=0 Vm5 n"DSC08952.tiff"
13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/#-hugin cropFactor=1.4857143163681
13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/i w4024 h6024 f0 v=0 Ra=0 Rb=0 Rc=0 Rd=0 Re=0 Eev16.2994942324995 Er1 Eb1 r-0.483343461740837 p6.00924214527405 y-7.45801494869317 TrX-0.00704248237311884 TrY0.00385387110768369 TrZ0.00058505940273221 Tpy19.7661661168532 Tpp4.75374351711646 j=6 a=0 b=0 c=0 d=0 e=0 g=0 t=0 Va=0 Vb=0 Vc=0 Vd=0 Vx=0 Vy=0 Vm5 n"DSC08957.tiff"
13:29:32: error while parsing panotools script: /Applications/Hugin/#-hugin cropFactor=1.4857143163681

Full system info from Hugin is:

Operating System: macOS Mojave Version 10.14.5 (Build 18F132)
Architecture: 64 bit
Free memory: 0 kiB

Hugin
Version: 2019.0.0.a369cbe55179 built by Niklas Mischkulnig
Path to resources: /Applications/Hugin/Hugin.app/Contents/Resources/xrc/
Path to data: /Applications/Hugin/Hugin.app/Contents/Resources/xrc/
Hugins camera and lens database: /Users/Mia/.hugindata/camlens.db
Multi-threading using C++11 std::thread and OpenMP
Monitor profile: /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/Color LCD-FD6E9053-53B7-5224-5892-F9F7EC52CEF3.icc

Libraries
wxWidgets: wxWidgets 3.1.2
wxWidgets Library (wxMac port)
Version 3.1.2 (Unicode: wchar_t, debug level: 0),
compiled at Jan 26 2019 22:27:52

Runtime version of toolkit used is 10.14.

libpano13: 2.9.19
Boost: 1.69.0
Exiv2: 0.27.0
SQLite3: 3.24.0
Vigra: 1.11.1
LittleCMS2: 2.9

[tmodes (tmodes)]

The same was posted on the mailing list. But an information request was not answered. So setting to incomplete.

[Amit Maitra (amaitra-l)]

I have the same problem - new MacOS - older releases worked on older ones. But not on the newest MacOS release.

[Darwin Alonso (dovalonso)]

Same problem. It seems to be looking for an old and nonexistent .pto file. If I login fresh as another user, it runs fine with the same images. I tried removing -r ~/.hugindata/ with no success.

[Darwin Alonso (dovalonso)]

further information. I fixed this in my case by Force Stopping the locked-up Batcher, then going back into PTBatcherGUI directly(not using Hugin), clicking one at a time on the stalled projects that had accumulated, and going up to File in the top-bar menu and hitting "Remove Project" (I think). Until I did that, Hugin was effectively broken.

I may have broken the queue original by removing files manually (rm) while it was running.

[tmodes (tmodes)]

Okay. It seems the main cause was a corrupted queue.
This is already covered by the FAQ. So closing here.