QGIS 2.14 Processing plugin crashes - TypeError: must be string, not None

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Author Name: Harel Dan (@hareldunn)
Original Redmine Issue: 14432
Affected QGIS version: 2.14.0
Redmine category:processing/core

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After successfully installing QGIS 2.14 standalone, upon startup a couple of days later, the processing plugin crashes, and does not load any longer. I've tried reinstalling and downgrading processing version from 2.12.99 to 2.12.3 but that is invalid.

The python error report:

@couldn't load plugin processing due to an error when calling its initGui() method

TypeError: must be string, not None@

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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• category_id was configured as Processing/Core

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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• category_id was changed from Processing/Core to 120

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Not reproducible here. Maybe you have an old Processing plugin in your user plugins folder? Try to start QGIS with clean profile.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Harel Dan (@hareldunn)

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I've removed all the previous QGIS directories from my machine before installing 2.14 and experiencing this bug

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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• operating_system was changed from to windows

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Still can not reproduce on Linux and Windows

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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closing for lack of feedback and because seems a local issue. Please reopen if necessary.

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• resolution was changed from to not reproducable
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed

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Author Name: Paulo Cardoso (Paulo Cardoso)

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The same for me.

Couldn't load plugin processing due to an error when calling its initGui() method

TypeError: must be string, not None
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 315, in startPlugin
plugins[packageName].initGui()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\ProcessingPlugin.py", line 57, in initGui
Processing.initialize()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\Processing.py", line 148, in initialize
Processing.loadFromProviders()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\Processing.py", line 165, in loadFromProviders
Processing.loadAlgorithms()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\Processing.py", line 200, in loadAlgorithms
Processing.updateProviders()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\Processing.py", line 173, in updateProviders
provider.loadAlgorithms()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\core\AlgorithmProvider.py", line 54, in loadAlgorithms
self._loadAlgorithms()
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\algs\otb\OTBAlgorithmProvider.py", line 61, in _loadAlgorithms
version = OTBUtils.getInstalledVersion(True)
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\algs\otb\OTBUtils.py", line 143, in getInstalledVersion
out = executeOtb(commands, progress, False)
File "C:/PROGRA1/QGISES1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\algs\otb\OTBUtils.py", line 169, in executeOtb
os.putenv('ITK_AUTOLOAD_PATH', otbLibPath())
TypeError: must be string, not None

Python version: 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
QGIS version: 2.14.1-Essen Essen, ea85bef

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Paulo Cardoso wrote:

The same for me.

please try with a clean configuration by deleting .qgis2 (make a backup first of course) and restarting qgis.

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Author Name: Oyvind Hamre (Oyvind Hamre)

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I have the same problem as above. I have deleted the .qgis2 folder, but it does not help. Any sugestions??

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• status_id was changed from Closed to Reopened

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Author Name: Oyvind Hamre (Oyvind Hamre)

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I removed all previous instalations of qgis. In addition to deleting .qgis2 I deleted .qgis-custom. I also had to delete all traces of qgis in HKEY_CURENT_USER (regedit). After restart of the system, a new instalation of qgis was atempted. This seems to have solved the problem.

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• status_id was changed from Reopened to Closed

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• regression was configured as 0

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Some providers are being removed from QGIS/Processing (will be available as plugin) and so are their categories in the bug tracker. To not leave them orphaned of a category they are being reassigned to processing/core.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• category_id was changed from 120 to Processing/Core