[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.6 project causing 1.7 to crash

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hi Ross,

That sounds a bit strange.  Can you start QGIS from the terminal and see
what the output is when it locks up.

- Nathan

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Purves Ross <rmpurves at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've updated my Ubuntu 10.10 installation to use QGIS 1.7. I put a lot of
> work into a project using QGIS 1.6 but it won't open in 1.7. The layers all
> appear but then the screen freezes as though QGIS is rendering the resulting
> map forever.
>
> A bit of googling revealed that there was a bug at some point which
> required the placement of 'gdal' between all <provider></provider> tags in
> the project XML file in a scenario like this. However, I tried this and it
> didn't work. I also have read various posts that say the use of 'on the fly'
> project appeared to cause problems going between 1.6 and 1.7. The project in
> question does indeed use on the fly projection.
>
> As a final note, I have an ECW raster layer in this map that requires the
> modified GDAL to work. I thought that the crash might be to do with the
> upgrade having removed my modified version of GDAL. I therefore recompiled
> it all and have checked to see that my version of 1.7 can now read ECW files
> and it can (when they are presented a a fresh layer and not as part of the
> problematic project).
>
> This is a really, really important project to me and I do need to get it
> back if at all possible. Please can anyone help?
>
> Very many thanks!
> Ross Purves
>
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