[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1800: Plug in manager crashes application

[Quantum GIS]

#1800: Plug in manager crashes application
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        Reporter:  peterk                                     |         Owner:  peterk         
            Type:  bug                                        |        Status:  new            
        Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.3  
       Component:  Python plugins and bindings                |       Version:  1.0.0          
      Resolution:                                             |      Keywords:  plug in manager
Platform_version:  10.4.11                                    |      Platform:  OS X           
        Must_fix:  No                                         |   Status_info:  0              
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Comment (by kyngchaos):

 I had a chance to try it at work, where we use OSX 10.4.  At first, OK.  I
 have GRASS installed, so I renamed it so Qgis couldn't find it.  Now it
 crashes at startup with exactly that EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION error (though
 strangely the thread trace is empty, so I can't verify the georefplugin
 reference).

 So, the GRASS plugin case may be more like the problem with a missing
 Python than I thought.  Since GRASS support has an intermediate Qgis
 library like Python support does, the Qgis application itself fails before
 the GRASS plugin even has a chance.  The "optional-ness" of GRASS support
 is tied to whether libqgis_grass was compiled and is present, not if GRASS
 is present or not.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1800#comment:14>
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