[Qgis-user] Crash on startup of QGIS 2.8.6 (nightly build)

[Alessandro Pasotti]

016-02-03 11:29 GMT+01:00 Peter Schürch <p.schuerch at meierpartner.ch>:

> Dear List
>
> I’m running QGIS 2.8.6 (nightly build) after a complete reinstallation of
> the OSGEO Suite on Windows 8.
>
> QGIS crashes on startup without any useful error message but writing a
> *.dmp file.
>
>
>
> Is there any way of retrieving the reason for the crash from the *.dmp
> file and eventually finding a solution?
>
>
>
> Remark: I had the same issue with a QGIS 2.12 installation before and
> therefore I decided to move back to the long-term version… But without
> success.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any useful hints how to get back to a running installation of
> QGIS.
>


Hi,

first thing to try is to rename .qgis2 directory located in our home folder.

Crashes are often caused by python plugins, by renaming your QGIS settings
folder, QGIS with re-create .qgis2 with the default settings and no
installed plugins.


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Alessandro Pasotti
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