[Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

[Mars Sjoden]

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
>
>
>
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