Bug report #16429
[Settings] [Windows] Only validate MSYS and R paths if the relevant provider is enabled
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Alexander Bruy | ||
| Category: | Processing/Core | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 2.18.13 | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | end of life |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 24338 |
Description
On Windows systems, the Processing configuration stores paths to GRASS/MSYS and R, which become invalid after upgrading QGIS to a newer version (they point to C:\\Program Files\\$QGIS_Older_Version\\foo when using the standalone installer on windows). As a result, you can't close the Processing Options dialog without updating those paths. However, 99% of the users don't even know what GRASS and R is, so they are surprised by the invalid path error. On most trainings I have to tell people to set the affected paths to C:\\ (or other dummy but existing location), what is a bit embarassing...
What about skipping the path validation if the relevant provider is disabled? It's better to tell users to disable unused providers rather than set dummy paths.
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No
#2
Updated by Steve Lowman about 7 years ago
Issue confirmed in 2.18.13.
Should this be a bug report? It certainly feels like one.
#3
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
- Regression? set to No
- Crashes QGIS or corrupts data set to No
- Affected QGIS version set to 2.18.13
- Description updated (diff)
- Tracker changed from Feature request to Bug report
Right.
#4
Updated by Steve Lowman about 7 years ago
I suggest 'Crashes QGIS' should be set to 'Yes', because it was freezing the application when I tried to change any other Processing option and clicked OK, until I implemented the work-around on both of these paths simultaneously. I have also seen this on a colleague's PC with a fresh Windows installation.
#5
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago
Steve Lowman wrote:
I suggest 'Crashes QGIS' should be set to 'Yes', because it was freezing the application when I tried to change any other Processing option and clicked OK, until I implemented the work-around on both of these paths simultaneously. I have also seen this on a colleague's PC with a fresh Windows installation.
I can't confirm this (the freeze), recently did a training, all Windows machines.
#6
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
Steve Lowman wrote:
I suggest 'Crashes QGIS' should be set to 'Yes', because it was freezing the application when I tried to change any other Processing option and
clicked OK, until I implemented the work-around on both of these paths simultaneously. I have also seen this on a colleague's PC with a fresh
Windows installation.
Do you mean a permanent freeze? Last time when I had this problem, the freeze was for maybe ~ 30 seconds. Very annoying, of course, but I couldn't equate it with crash. A crash leads to loss of unsaved data.
#7
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
Giovanni Manghi wrote:
I can't confirm this (the freeze), recently did a training, all Windows machines.
Giovanni, do you mean even if the paths are wrong, there is no freeze and an error message pops up immediately?
I don't remember whether the freeze occured always, or only when the paths were wrong. I believe the latter - Steve can you confirm? If I understood you correctly, you wrote after fixing all paths there was no freeze.
#8
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago
Borys Jurgiel wrote:
Giovanni Manghi wrote:
I can't confirm this (the freeze), recently did a training, all Windows machines.
Giovanni, do you mean even if the paths are wrong, there is no freeze and an error message pops up immediately?
I don't remember whether the freeze occured always, or only when the paths were wrong. I believe the latter - Steve can you confirm? If I understood you correctly, you wrote after fixing all paths there was no freeze.
I can't confirm the total freeze. As you said it take a few seconds to start respond again, annoying but not a complete freeze.
#9
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 6 years ago
- Resolution set to end of life
- Status changed from Open to Closed
End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR
Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/
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