[Qgis-developer] Debugging a QGIS crash

[Andrew McClure]

Tom

I'd suggest installing VM Ware and running QGIS under Ubuntu.  You will have access to a console and better debugging facilities. You could even run the program under strace.   Ideally you want to see a stack trace so you can identify the pyqt commands that were executed prior to crashing.

Of course it could be operating system specific.  For windows, a quick google revealed this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112831/how-to-get-a-stack-trace-when-c-program-crashes-using-msvc8-2005