QGIS crashes using SVG marker

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Author Name: Matthew Baker (@dpsspatial)
Original Redmine Issue: 14922
Affected QGIS version: 2.14.3
Redmine category:unknown

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When changing the default 'simple marker' of a point layer, setting the 'symbol layer type' to SVG Marker causes QGIS 2.14.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 to hang then crash.

From what I can figure out, the SVG option tries to find a folder containing an SVG from whatever the last path was - in some cases it seems to try and open Inkscape SVG's, but when that option is renamed, it seeks another folder and grabs the first SVG it finds.

In either case, QGIS crashes without any dialogue box.

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Author Name: Matthew Baker (@dpsspatial)

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I forgot to mention that this does not seem to affect the Windows installation of QGIS 2.14.3.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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do you have a custom SVG path in your QGIS general options?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Matthew Baker (@dpsspatial)

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Ah that did it - the Ubuntu path was set to /home/matthew - when I removed it, QGIS chose another path that seems to be working just fine. Thank you!

(please mark as closed if you could/should).

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Duplicate of #22836

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• resolution was changed from to duplicate
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• category_id was configured as Unknown