[Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

[William Kyngesburye]

I couldn't get QGIS to crash like this, on either Snow Leopard or Lion.

Maybe a crash report will help.

On Oct 29, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote:

> 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.
> 
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