Error Message

[Eric_R]

Hi Gavin

I looked under the directory you specified (Nonlinear curve fit LM.vi" -> "LM get new coefficients.vi" -> "Matrix left divisionMV.vi" -> "Real SVD decomposition.vi") with my copy of LabVIEW 8.0 and 8.6 neither of these contained the "Real SVD decomposition", the only VI displayed was just SVD decomposition as seen in the attached image. Inside the function you will find a dll call, you could try running this DLL call by itself and seeing if you still get the error when constants are inputted. It is possible that something may be corrupt and you may want to try reinstalling LabVIEW.

 

[bostonscot]

We have now uninstalled, run msiblast (as suggested elsewhere) and reinstalled - and it still occurs.

As for the presence or otherwise of "Real SVD decomposition.  It is true it is listed as "SVDdecomposition" in the backpanel of "Matrix left divisionMV" but when you open it, it is called "Real SVD decomposition".

By "running the call by itself" do you mean copy that  function node into a new vi and provide it with some reasonable data and see if it crashes?

[bostonscot]

To follow up to that.  If you copy the function call and paste in some numbers it runs with no error.  I can back out through the vi's with "dummy" data and it works fine up to a point.  Looks like its something wrong with the way it is handling bad data.  In fact I have just spotted that this error is thrown when I run it on another machine too.  For reference the ellipse parameters are a= 0.6,b=0.3,x0=0.1,y0=0.2,noise=0.021, max iteration=4000, tolerance=1e-8.  I believe these are all default.

It seems to throw the error on the first pass through "Nonlinear curve fit LM".

[Eric_R]

Hi Gavin

I ran the function using the parameters specified (they were indeed the default settings) and got the following result. w

I think there might be a problem coming from your ellipse.vi I have attached my own copy of it from my machine. Try calling this as your function instead.

[bostonscot]

sorry for the long silence, this slipped off my radar.  We tried copying your version of ellipse.vi onto the problematic machine and the problem is still there....we have run out of ideas!

[JeffL]

Hi Gavin,

What NI software do you have installed on this system? What is the OS (Service Pack?)? Do you have any other versions of LabVIEW on the system you can try?

I tried it on 8.0 and it worked on my machine. It is strange.