Yes, I have sent quite a few crash reports, but would like to build QGIS with debugging to hopefully get more useful info for dev.'s or others better at understanding how I am stuffing things up.
I am hopeful that I may have pin-pointed more consistently QGIS crashing. They Mac model I was using is iMac8,1 The other iMac I have been using is an iMac7,1 Sent from my iPhone On 2011-10-29, at 4:51 PM, William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't get QGIS to crash like this, on either Snow Leopard or Lion. > > Maybe a crash report will help. > > On Oct 29, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote: > >> Some curious findings just now after reviewing several hours of Screen >> recordings of using QGIS on various operating system platforms (eyes... >> bleeding)... >> >> What I noticed... >> >> 1. Double click layer to Launch Properties Window >> 2. (do nothing or make changes) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes >> >> VS >> >> 1. RIGHT CLICK layer, >> 2. Select Properties from contextual menu to launch Properties Window >> 4. Do what ever you like then click APPLY/OK... >> 5. no problem >> >> I repeated this test about 10 times on OS X.6.8 cleaned caches and new >> .plist file and the new QGIS 1.7.1-2 from William Kyng's site, with these >> exact same outcomes as above. >> >> However, after about the 10th relaunch of QGIS 1.7.1-2 after crashing it, I >> was unable to reproduce (no crashes) after about 30+ properties toggles and >> 10+ different QGIS relaunches. >> >> Now (to add another variable). After I completed >> >> 1. launch QGIS >> 2. Load Natural Earth shp layer >> 3. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window >> 4. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS >> 5. OK >> 6. Scroll mouse zoom map canvas >> 7. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window >> 8. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes >> >> and returns back to >> >> 1. launch QGIS >> 2. Load Natural Earth shp layer >> 3. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window >> 4. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes >> >> ... >> >> Soooo far I am unable to crash QGIS IF I invoke the Properties Window via >> Right Mouse click on Layer. >> >> could this be the key to my issues? I hope so... will ONLY use right >> click layer to invoke properties window from now on to test. >> >> mars >> >> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mars Sjoden <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yah, I am wondering if there is a certain hardware configuration on my >> machines that is not agreeing with Qt cocoa. >> >> Apple hardware tested: >> >> 3x iMac 3.06ghz core2duo, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS >> 1x iMac 2.00ghz core2dou, ATI radeon hd2400 >> 1x macbookpro 2ghz, core dou, ati radeon??? >> >> recent testing on:10.6 vanilla >> >> QGIS 1.7 to 1.7.1-2 (and 1.8) - including William Kyng's required frameworks >> >> opening Properties dialogue windo and selecting OK or APPLY (either after >> making changes or making no changes) will at some point seemingly randomly >> crash QGIS >> >> With the latest 10.6.8 update (or perhaps 1.7.1 not sure which came first) I >> have one iMac 3ghz machine that will kill QGIS everytime I open a properties >> window and click OK or APPLY without making any changes. >> >> Just curious if there is some sort of hardware issue since I have flat out >> re-installed 10.6 on many of my machines with the only extra software >> installed including QGIS and the frameworks and still have the same issue. >> >> Of note, >> >> I have tested the latest operating systems from >> OSGeo (ubuntu 11?) >> Fedora 15 >> Mint 11, Katya >> Debian 6 Squeeze >> OpenSUSE 11 >> and Windows 7 >> both on separate partition tables without a virtual machine and in Virtual >> Box, Parallels 7 and VMWare 4. >> >> I still have instability issues, although found OpenSUSE 11 and Windows 7 to >> be the most stable so far allowing for up to an hours worth of work before a >> crash. >> >> The crashes in OpenSUSE 11 seem to be related to the properties dialogue >> window OK/APPLY (that is when the crashes occur), while on Windows 7 it is >> more random through out the use of QGIS. >> >> Datasets I have been testing with have been from the openly available >> Natural Earth shapefile datasets as you suggested William. >> >> Mars >> >> What sort of problems are you having? I don't think there is anything >> specific to a system version, it's more connected with what Qt version and >> type (carbon vs. cocoa). Newer systems need Qt cocoa, definitely Lion does. >> >> There are a few known issues, with bug reports and mentioned in my >> distribution readme (font selection, non-ascii chars in GRASS shell, max # >> open files). A couple other recent issues I can think of: odd georeferencer >> window behavior, minimized globe plugin panel appears on top of upper-left >> corner toolbar. >> >> Much of this probably has something to do with Qt cocoa. >> >> ----- >> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> >> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ >> >> "Oh, look, I seem to have fallen down a deep, dark hole. Now what does that >> remind me of? Ah, yes - life." >> >> - Marvin >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > "This is a question about the past, is it? ... How can I tell that the past > isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate > physical sensations and my state of mind?" > > - The Ruler of the Universe > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
