QGIS crashes when opening Settings -> Options dialog

[qgib]

Author Name: Thomas McAdam (Thomas McAdam)
Original Redmine Issue: 15620
Affected QGIS version: 2.14.6
Redmine category:unknown

---

QGIS 2.14.7, 2.14.1, 2.16.3 is freezing and crashing consistently when you try and open the Options -> Settings dialog. This has started happening in the last week or so. I am trying to use to QGIS 2.14 LTR http://qgis.org/debian-ltr.

Things I have tried so far:

-deleting .qgis2 folder an allow QGIS to recreate it on application start-up
-completely uninstalling QGIS 2.14.7 LTR and dependencies and reinstalling from http://qgis.org/debian-ltr (deleting .qgis2 folder at the same time)
-completely uninstalling QGIS and installing 2.16.3 from http://qgis.org/debian (deleting .qgis2 folder at the same time)
-completely uninstalling QGIS and installing 2.14.1 from http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu (deleting .qgis2 folder at the same time)

The only version of QGIS I can get to work fully in Ubuntu 16.04 is 2.8 from the main Ubuntu repo

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

---

Not reproducable here. (Re)moving @~/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf@ might also help.

[qgib]

Author Name: Thomas McAdam (Thomas McAdam)

---

Thank you Jürgen, this has fixed the problem. I wasn't aware there was any config outside .qgis2 folder.

[qgib]

Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

---

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

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

---

• category_id was configured as Unknown