[Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

[Mars Sjoden]

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 <marsofearth at gmail.com> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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