[Qgis-user] Georeferencing Crash

[Etienne Tourigny]

I assume you are using Unity?  There are numerous problems with it,
and a few issues related to qgis.

Can you try another desktop, like kde, xfce, MATE or cinnamon?

cheers
Etienne

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Steve Katzberg
<stevekatzberg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> Thank you for replying.  The problem appears related to the starting of an
> X-window or whatever is the equivalent in Ubuntu with Qgis.  Once Qgis went
> unstable the first time, I could "kill 'pid' " to stop it but upon restart
> of Qgis, all that appears is a highly unstable bit of graphics rapidly
> jumping around and not accessible in any way via mouse-click.  I have purged
> Qgis, reinstalled Qgis, started it from the luncher and from the command
> line, with and without plug-ins.  Always the same problem.  On reinstall,
> the Qgis graphic comes up fine, says it is starting and then the Hints
> graphic comes up and immediately behind the correct grapics, the rapid lines
> with no correct rendering of anything.  I think the original instability has
> somehow damaged the Ubuntu and I don't know how to fix it.
>
> By the way, the Qgis icon on the start menu rapidly pulsates.
>
> Steve Katzberg
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Mandel"
> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> To: <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Georeferencing Crash
>
>
>
> That might be it, but there good be other possibilities.
> Which version did you install and from which repository?
> Which transformation did you pick?
>
> Have you run qgis from command line to see if it dumps and error message
> when the crash happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 10/30/2012 11:33 PM, Lene Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Hi  Steve
>> Yhere are a reported bug on georeferencing.
>> The first try will be OK. The next goes wrong because the program remember
>> the previous coordinates. The workaround - until we see a bugfix - is to
>> close down QGIS and restart the program.
>> Regards
>> Lene Fischer
>> ________________________________
>> Fra: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
>> på vegne af Steve Katzberg [stevekatzberg at bellsouth.net]
>> Sendt: 31. oktober 2012 03:06
>> Til: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Emne: [Qgis-user] Georeferencing Crash
>>
>> I am an ArcView/Windows user and also have Linux/Ubuntu Precise on another
>> computer.  I needed some enhancements to the ArcView I have and decided to
>> install Qgis on the Linux computer.  All went well and I built a couple
>> projects that look very good.  I then tried the main target for the
>> installation, georeferencing.  After some attemps I got to the point of
>> generating contol points which did not go well.  The gui dissolved into a
>> set of pulsating lines across the work area.  I used both "kill" and the gui
>> "quit" which ultimately both methods succeeded in stopping the Qgis, or what
>> was left of it.  Subsequently I used apt-get to remove and reinstall Qgis to
>> no avail, making sure to restart the computer each time. Reinstallation did
>> not fix the pulsating lines on the monitor.  Obviously Qgis has hosed some
>> other software that it needs and it will not work. I'd like a little help on
>> how to get Qgis back working.
>>
>> Steve Katzberg
>>
>>
>>
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