QGIS crashes after editing shapefiles w/o dbf file

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Author Name: zicke - (zicke -)
Original Redmine Issue: 2025

Redmine category:data_provider
Assignee: nobody -

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1. Load Shapefile
2. Toggle Editing
3. Select some features
4. Merge Selected Features
5. Toggle Editing -> Save
6. QGIS crashes

gdb backtrace is attached.

I'm using QGIS 1.4.0-Trunk (code revision 11822).

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• gdb_bt.txt (zicke -)

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Author Name: Marco Hugentobler (@mhugent)

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Hm, it works without crash for me here. Could you add a sample dataset and a description which features you select exactly for merging?
From the backtrace, it seems there is an error writing to the dbf file. So I wonder if there is a problem related to the dbf file, e.g. file permission. Please also report your GDAL version.

Marco

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Author Name: zicke - (zicke -)

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It was a dbf file problem since it wasn't existing. QGIS is able to load a shapefile w/o dbf file and it is possible to move vertex points etc. But QGIS crashes after trying to save the edits.

Stefan

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Please then consider changing the title of this ticket.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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fixed in dc92ab0 (SVN r11825): shapes files without DBFs lack the capability [[ChangeAttributeValues]], so the merge tool shouldn't work on them.

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• resolution was changed from to fixed
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed