How many layers do you have in this project file? And can you load the file by itself?
- Nathan On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Ross Purves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Very many thanks for the quick response! OK, running from the command line > gives me slight more info, to be sure: > > [Tue Oct 11 13:34:26 RMPT43:NewMapMarch2011 ]$ qgis > VectorBackgroundMapMarch2011 > Warning: loading of qgis translation failed > [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_GB] > Warning: loading of qt translation failed > [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_GB] > Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library > /usr/lib/qgispython: (/usr/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory) > Critical: Data source is invalid > Critical: > > Additionally, when I start QGIS this way I get a pop up window within the > graphical interface that says: > > The layer > /mnt/bunker/ross/Research/PhD/NewMapMarch2011/VectorBackgroundMapMarch2011 > is not a valid layer and can not be added to the map > > The strange thing is that I'm pretty certain there is no problem with the > project file. It's timestamp reads 22 April, when I last worked on it. I.e. > the version of QGIS has changed but my file has remained constant. > > Many thanks! > Ross > ________________________________________ > From: Nathan Woodrow [[email protected]] > Sent: 11 October 2011 13:26 > To: Purves Ross > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.6 project causing 1.7 to crash > > Hi Ross, > > That sounds a bit strange. Can you start QGIS from the terminal and see > what the output is when it locks up. > > - Nathan > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Purves Ross <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've updated my Ubuntu 10.10 installation to use QGIS 1.7. I put a lot of > work into a project using QGIS 1.6 but it won't open in 1.7. The layers all > appear but then the screen freezes as though QGIS is rendering the resulting > map forever. > > A bit of googling revealed that there was a bug at some point which > required the placement of 'gdal' between all <provider></provider> tags in > the project XML file in a scenario like this. However, I tried this and it > didn't work. I also have read various posts that say the use of 'on the fly' > project appeared to cause problems going between 1.6 and 1.7. The project in > question does indeed use on the fly projection. > > As a final note, I have an ECW raster layer in this map that requires the > modified GDAL to work. I thought that the crash might be to do with the > upgrade having removed my modified version of GDAL. I therefore recompiled > it all and have checked to see that my version of 1.7 can now read ECW files > and it can (when they are presented a a fresh layer and not as part of the > problematic project). > > This is a really, really important project to me and I do need to get it > back if at all possible. Please can anyone help? > > Very many thanks! > Ross Purves > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > >
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