{"record":{"id":"f960a03040295d18","repo":"Intervention/image","slug":"failed-to-create-instance-of-intervention-image-dr","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Failed to create instance of Intervention\\Image\\Drivers\\Imagick\\Frame","messagePattern":"Failed to create instance of Intervention\\\\Image\\\\Drivers\\\\Imagick\\\\Frame","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"DriverException","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"src/Drivers/Imagick/Frame.php","lineNumber":36,"sourceCode":"use Intervention\\Image\\Interfaces\\ImageInterface;\nuse Intervention\\Image\\Interfaces\\SizeInterface;\nuse Intervention\\Image\\Size;\n\nclass Frame extends AbstractFrame implements FrameInterface\n{\n    /**\n     * Create new frame.\n     *\n     * @throws DriverException\n     */\n    public function __construct(protected Imagick $native)\n    {\n        try {\n            $background = new ImagickPixel('rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)');\n            $this->native->setImageBackgroundColor($background);\n            $this->native->setBackgroundColor($background);\n        } catch (ImagickException | ImagickPixelException $e) {\n            throw new DriverException('Failed to create instance of ' . self::class, previous: $e);\n        }\n    }\n\n    /**\n     * {@inheritdoc}\n     *\n     * @see DriverInterface::toImage()\n     */\n    public function toImage(DriverInterface $driver): ImageInterface\n    {\n        return new Image($driver, new Core($this->native()));\n    }\n\n    /**\n     * {@inheritdoc}\n     *\n     * @see DriverInterface::setNative()\n     *","sourceCodeStart":18,"sourceCodeEnd":54,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/Intervention/image/blob/5598b9e39751c34afc5cdee84abef77f92c26f68/src/Drivers/Imagick/Frame.php#L18-L54","documentation":"The Imagick Frame constructor sets a transparent white background on the wrapped Imagick object (src/Drivers/Imagick/Frame.php:32-34); failures are wrapped as DriverException 'Failed to create instance of ...Frame'. A Frame is created for every layer during decoding and animation handling, so this surfaces on read() and usually indicates a broken ImageMagick environment or exhausted resources rather than bad input data.","triggerScenarios":"Reading any image with the Imagick driver when the extension is miscompiled against a different ImageMagick version; policy.xml denying the operation; memory/area resource limits hit while decoding very large images or long animations.","commonSituations":"PHP/extension upgrades in containers leaving imagick ABI-mismatched; policy.xml with tight width/height/memory caps rejecting large uploads; shared hosting with low MAGICK resource limits.","solutions":["Read the native error from $e->getPrevious()->getMessage() to identify the real cause","Rebuild the imagick extension against the installed ImageMagick (pecl install imagick) and restart PHP-FPM","Raise ImageMagick resource limits in /etc/ImageMagick-*/policy.xml or via MAGICK_* environment variables for large images","Limit upload dimensions before processing"],"exampleFix":"// before\n$image = $manager->read($uploadedFile->getRealPath());\n\n// after\ntry {\n    $image = $manager->read($uploadedFile->getRealPath());\n} catch (DriverException $e) {\n    error_log('Decode failed: ' . $e->getPrevious()?->getMessage());\n    throw $e;\n}","handlingStrategy":"try-catch","validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":"use Intervention\\Image\\Exceptions\\DriverException;\n\ntry {\n    $image = $manager->read($path);\n} catch (DriverException $e) {\n    $reason = $e->getPrevious()?->getMessage() ?? $e->getMessage();\n    error_log('ImageMagick failed during decode/wrap: ' . $reason);\n    throw $e; // surface to caller; environment must be fixed\n}","preventionTips":["Smoke-test read() of a small fixture image after every PHP/ImageMagick upgrade","Keep imagick and ImageMagick versions in lockstep (pecl install imagick against the installed lib)","Size-limit uploads before decode; check policy.xml width/height/memory caps against your workload"],"tags":["imagick","environment","resource-limits","decoding","frame"],"backgroundTag":"imagemagick-resource-limit","analyzedSha":"5598b9e39751c34afc5cdee84abef77f92c26f68","analyzedAt":"2026-08-23T02:17:31.068Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-23T08:06:27.607Z"}