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Blender internal crashes every 2nd render
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Description

System Information
Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit
4 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 580 Ti

Blender Version
Broken: Blender 2.69.0 r60995
Crashes with previous stable version (2.68) too.

Short description of error
Every second time I try to render the scene, Blender crashes.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Open the attached Blender scene. Render it, then render it again. The second time you are trying to render the scene, Blender crashes.

Since I have trouble to upload the files to this report in Opera, download the .blend file from here:
http://www.spook.freshsite.pl/Temporary/Blender/Polo10.blend

This error is not easy to repeat. Sometimes Blender renders the scene correctly a few times and then then crashes.
I've tapped into the Blender with Visual Studio and cought the exception. The details follows:

Output

(Starting rendering)
blender.exe has triggered a breakpoint.

The thread 0x15ac has exited with code 0 (0x0).
First-chance exception at 0x0072565B in blender.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000040.
Unhandled exception at 0x0072565B in blender.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000040.

Call stack:

blender.exe!0072565b() Unknown

	[Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for blender.exe]	
	blender.exe!006fa056()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006fa17a()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006d6e48()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006c70ef()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006c754d()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006c7832()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006c7b62()	Unknown
	blender.exe!006c7eb2()	Unknown
	Pen_Tablet.dll!0aad18ae()	Unknown
	Pen_Tablet.dll!0aaca26c()	Unknown
	[External Code]	
	blender.exe!0051fe86()	Unknown
	blender.exe!0041a21d()	Unknown
	pthreadVC2.dll!003d1e05()	Unknown
	[External Code]

Minidump with heap

I've saved the minidump file from the crash. You can access it here:
http://www.spook.freshsite.pl/Temporary/Blender/blender.dmp (It should be available ~30 mins from posting this report, weighs around 700 Mb).

If you provide me with the debugging symbols for the stable version (Blender 2.69.0 r60995), I may try to post the resolved call stack.

Event Timeline

Wojciech Sura (wojciechsura) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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In case you want to contact me, email wojciechsura at gmail.com.

Can't reproduce on linux with asan;
According to your tracelog, this crash occurs inside Pen_Tablet.dll, which is a part of Wacom Pen&Touch driver.
Old versions of this driver are known as unstable in Windows 7, so I would reccommend you to uninstall old driver and install the latest version.

I've installed the newest version, though the problem still persists. I'll try rendering this same scene on another computer without this driver and will let you know, whether the problem persists or not.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) renamed this task from Blender crashes every 2nd render to Blender internal crashes every 2nd render.Nov 22 2013, 6:18 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.

I haven't been able to redo the problem on OS X either, probably it is Windows specific or related to some system configuration.

The pen tablet driver may be related and is a good thing to investigate, but I wouldn't trust these Windows backtraces too much, there may well be a completely different cause here.

I can not reproduce the issue on windows 7 either. Seems to be something to do with specific setup.

@Wojciech Sura (wojciechsura), please try other computer and try totally removing this driver and see what happens. And let us know.

Sergey Sharybin (sergey) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Jan 17 2014, 12:48 PM
Sergey Sharybin (sergey) claimed this task.

Archiving the report since lack of response in more than a month. Feel free to poke me here when you'll have more information and i'll re-open the report.