It has strictly no impact on the fonctionnality, since this happens when the process is finished, but is not good for the look of final application. Logging might help understand what goes on See also - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21713682/pyqt-occasional-segfaults-when-using-qapplication-quit - https://github.com/integricho/path-of-a-pyqter/tree/master/qttut08