QGIS Crashing Continually

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Author Name: Leigh Seitz (Leigh Seitz)
Original Redmine Issue: 16732
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.9
Redmine category:build/install

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Hi, I was running a training on introductory QGIS and the most recent version keeps crashing on both PC and Mac users. My PC with the most recent version receives the minidump crash error when I try to display symbology or perform joins. My students that are Mac users couldn't open .csv files, and my PC users froze when opening vector files. Is there a massive bug in the most recent QGIS version? I'm conducting another training in 2 days and would love to advise how to fix this problem for my students.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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how did you install on Windows and macOS?

on Windows did you used the osgeo4w installer? can you check the version of GDAL installed (as seen in the osgeo4w installer > advanced install)?

Also:
remove any 4rd party plugin, even better if you can start from scratch and remove the .qgis2 folder, then if needing plugins install them only when needed. If the culprit is a plugin you will notice at that point.

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Author Name: Leigh Seitz (Leigh Seitz)

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Using the osgeo4w installer, I installed the long term version 2.14.15 which fixed the problem of crashing on my computer, but the 2.18.9 still gives me the same glitches.

With 2.18.9 installed I continually removed the .qgis2 folder and still got the mini dump crash error message, which wrote to a new .qgis2 folder.

The new users originally installed 2.18.9 via the Windows Standalone Installer and the KyngChaos QGIS for macOS. The new users had no extra plugins installed.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on version 2.18.9?

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Leigh Seitz wrote:

Using the osgeo4w installer, I installed the long term version 2.14.15 which fixed the problem of crashing on my computer, but the 2.18.9 still gives me the same glitches.

With 2.18.9 installed I continually removed the .qgis2 folder and still got the mini dump crash error message, which wrote to a new .qgis2 folder.

The new users originally installed 2.18.9 via the Windows Standalone Installer and the KyngChaos QGIS for macOS. The new users had no extra plugins installed.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on version 2.18.9?

if you used the osgeo4w installer > advanced install

and have installed/upgraded today, then you installed an uopdate of the GDAL library that has been reported to make QGIS very unstable. The same installer allows you downgrade to the previous version of GDAL and you'll again a stable 2.18.9.

Check if you have GDAL

2.2.0-5

the osgeo4w installer allows you downgrade, in this case to

2.2.0-3

The "new" .qgis2 folder is normal, if it does not exist qgis recreates it because it needs it to store fundamental stuff.

If 2.14.15 works and is stable than use it, also on macOS, after all is still the LTR version of QGIS.

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Author Name: Ger CO (Ger CO)

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Leigh Seitz wrote:

Using the osgeo4w installer, I installed the long term version 2.14.15 which fixed the problem of crashing on my computer, but the 2.18.9 still gives me the same glitches.

With 2.18.9 installed I continually removed the .qgis2 folder and still got the mini dump crash error message, which wrote to a new .qgis2 folder.

The new users originally installed 2.18.9 via the Windows Standalone Installer and the KyngChaos QGIS for macOS. The new users had no extra plugins installed.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on version 2.18.9?

I have had the exact same experience in February while conducting a QGIS course at an university. Constant minidump errors when joining by attributes, zooming in and out and categrized symbology. The class had qgis 2.18.x installed from osgeo4w installer with no additional plugins installed. OS was win 7 64bit. I regularly have crashes at work as well.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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I have had the exact same experience in February while conducting a QGIS course at an university. Constant minidump errors when joining by attributes, zooming in and out and categrized symbology. The class had qgis 2.18.x installed from osgeo4w installer with no additional plugins installed. OS was win 7 64bit. I regularly have crashes at work as well.

well this is of course something unfortunate, but not certainly the experience of the vast majority of users, if you exclude the situation I described you above (which by the way you haven't yet confirmed to me or not) the problem of very frequent crashes is often something causes by a local issue. I'm not saying we are bug free, I'm saying that if QGIS would crash constantly for anyone we would not be where we are now.

let's try to pinpoint your specific proble, for that please do the check I asked for above.

cheers

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Closing for lack of feedback.

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• resolution was changed from to not reproducable
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