<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="Chakra Petch" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">[sorry if you see this twice; I sent from my work account a couple of days ago, but it</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">s awaiting moderation due to my big corporate signature]</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-family: "Chakra Petch"; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-family: "Chakra Petch"; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear QGIS Users,</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">I am running QGIS 3.16.0 on Windows 2016 Server 2019 Datacenter, loading an Oracle layer then running Check Validity from the Vector geometry section of the Processing Toolbox.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">QGIS crashes-to-desktop without leaving an error message. I would like to be able to find a work-around or at least provide more info for a bug report, but the instructions I’ve found for creating log files (set QGIS_LOG_FILE and QGIS_DEBUG in the Options -> System -> Environment Variables) have not worked. The Windows Event Log seems unhelpful, saying only:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting application name: qgis-bin.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5f9304c8<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.17763.1518, time stamp: 0xff301d3c<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Exception code: 0xc0000005<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Fault offset: 0x00000000000396c9<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting process id: 0x12b4<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting application start time: 0x01d6b0b7a76af475<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.16\bin\qgis-bin.exe<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Report Id: 26e55c5c-5042-4c60-a353-2a8c72434bce<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting package full name:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 7pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Faulting package-relative application ID:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">I can’t say I’ve ever found a 0xc00000005 error particularly solvable.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">I’ve just checked QGIS 3.14.16-Pi and it just works as it is supposed to, so at least I have my work-around.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">So, how to be a good open source citizen and provide good Issue text? I thought “log file!” but maybe there’s another way?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">If QGIS_LOG_FILE is the way to go (and it may not be as that string isn’t in the documentation as far as I can tell) can anyone help me set it more firmly than in the Environment Variables section of the Options?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">Best Regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Chakra Petch";" class="">Sean</span></div></body></html>