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Out of curiosity, Are you able to replicate this if you Only open the Properties Window for a selected shapefile, do no changes and simply press OK or APPLY.

I noticed on OS X I don't even need to change any symbology, simply entering the OK or APPLY button for the properties window would, on random occasions, kill QGIS.

marsofearth - wrote:

Out of curiosity, Are you able to replicate this if you Only open the Properties Window for a selected shapefile, do no changes and simply press OK or APPLY.

I noticed on OS X I don't even need to change any symbology, simply entering the OK or APPLY button for the properties window would, on random occasions, kill QGIS.

Yes, also in my case it is possible to crash QGIS also by clicking on one of the layer categories and pressing OK or APPLY.
Currently I have found that there is better chance to survive when I just simply change outline style and return it back before any real changes has done.

Another test to try that I have found on Mac OS X.6.8 with QGIS 1.7.1-2 William Kyng's build
And after watching hours of Screen Capture video of using (and crashing QGIS) on Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu 11.04, OpenSUSE, and Fedora 15

1. Launch QGIS
2. Load Vector Layer
3. Double Click TOC Layer to Invoke Properties Window - ( VS Right Click to select and invoke Properties Window )
4. do nothing, but click OK or APPLY

Sometimes this would crash QGIS every time other times I would have to do One Further step of ZOOMING or PANNING the map canvas first before step 3.

Of Note. So far I have been unable to crash QGIS if I only Right Click the TOC Layer to select and invoke the Properties Window.

just something to try.

1. Launch QGIS
2. Load Vector Layer
3. Double Click TOC Layer to Invoke Properties Window - ( VS Right Click to select and invoke Properties Window )
4. do nothing, but click OK or APPLY

I tried hard to make qgis-master crash with the above steps, but I wasn't able to to that. I'm on Ubuntu 64bit 11.10

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

1. Launch QGIS
2. Load Vector Layer
3. Double Click TOC Layer to Invoke Properties Window - ( VS Right Click to select and invoke Properties Window )
4. do nothing, but click OK or APPLY

I tried hard to make qgis-master crash with the above steps, but I wasn't able to to that. I'm on Ubuntu 64bit 11.10

Hi Giovanni, can You try may steps:
1. Load some vector layer (SHP)
2. Go to Layer Manager -> Styles and classify by 'Unique value'.
3. Try to change styles for some categories. Sometimes double clicking to category name and than changing style helps to reproduce problem.
4. Press Apply or OK button, QGIS will crash.

Hi Ivan, I tried again and again but no crashes. This can be something related to a specific vector?

By the way, when you mean "unique value" are you referring to renderer in the old symbology? If yes, then please try again with the new one, the old is deprecated and will be dropped soon.

Hi Giovanni, can You try may steps:
1. Load some vector layer (SHP)
2. Go to Layer Manager -> Styles and classify by 'Unique value'.
3. Try to change styles for some categories. Sometimes double clicking to category name and than changing style helps to reproduce problem.
4. Press Apply or OK button, QGIS will crash.

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Hi Ivan, I tried again and again but no crashes. This can be something related to a specific vector?

I will try to compile latest trunk and test again.

By the way, when you mean "unique value" are you referring to renderer in the old symbology? If yes, then please try again with the new one, the old is deprecated and will be dropped soon.

Yes, crashing also with new symbology. I have this problem with many of my PostGIS layers.

Hello Ivan, if possible to somewhat standardize your debuging of our similar crashing issue, try using the publicly available Natural Earth data

just to rule out data source as an issue..

Mars Sjoden wrote:

Hello Ivan, if possible to somewhat standardize your debuging of our similar crashing issue, try using the publicly available Natural Earth data

just to rule out data source as an issue..

I have downloaded '110m-admin-0-countries.zip' and did 'unique value' classification by 'TYPE'. Than after few times reopening 'Layer properties', clicking to some category and pressing OK, QGIS will crash.

I have downloaded '110m-admin-0-countries.zip' and did 'unique value' classification by 'TYPE'. Than after few times reopening 'Layer properties', clicking to some category and pressing OK, QGIS will crash.

Also, I am able to crash with 'new symbology' just by changing colors (values 'Categorized' by TYPE)

Also, I am able to crash with 'new symbology' just by changing colors (values 'Categorized' by TYPE)

here seems rock solid. Same datasource, same steps.

Ivan, How are you invoking the Properties Window?

By Double Clicking the TOC Layer or
Right Clicking and selecting Properties from the TOC Layer?

Do you notice any difference in stability between the two ways?

Mars Sjoden wrote:

Ivan, How are you invoking the Properties Window?

By Double Clicking the TOC Layer or
Right Clicking and selecting Properties from the TOC Layer?

Do you notice any difference in stability between the two ways?

Thanks for pointing this. I did once again many tests by invoking 'Properties' in both ways.
It seems that 'right clicking and selecting Properties from the TOC Layer' is more stable (no crash in my last tests) that 'double clicking the TOC Layer' (crashing many times).

oops. 50f20c2 should take care of it.

Martin Dobias wrote:

btw. when deleting resulution "fixed" change also the status, otherwise the bug will stay marked as closed

I wanted to do so, but I see this value as read-only text.