[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3861: QGis cannot be started

[Quantum GIS]

#3861: QGis cannot be started
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   Reporter:  robertzederik                              |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                                        |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Build/Install                              |            Version:  1.6.0        
   Keywords:                                             |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  Windows                                    |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                          |  
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Comment(by peppo):

 Replying to [comment:2 robertzederik]:
 > Possibly... Any idea how I can fix this?

 This sounds to me like a conflict of several versions of libtiff.dll. You
 can try to resolve this by the following:
 check if there is a libtiff.dll in your windows/system32 folder
 if there is one rename it to libtiff.dll.bak
 copy the libtiff.dll from the qgis install dir to windows/system32
 this possibly affects other programs which need the (older/different)
 version of libtiff.dll, in this case you have to reverse your actions.

 I heared, this is called the windows dll hell.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3861#comment:4>
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