buggy profile results in two instances starting

[qgib]

Author Name: Gavin Fleming (@gubuntu)
Original Redmine Issue: 21563
Affected QGIS version: 3.4.5
Redmine category:unknown

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Ever since I did the first upgrade between 3.x versions, I've had to kill the QGIS instance that starts, as it hangs on the splash screen. After doing that, a valid session completes startup and I can continue.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but that made no difference. Then I tried creating a new profile and opening into that profile and that solves the problem. It's good that only one instance starts now but I lose out on my whole working environment from my default profile.

Is there a way to fix the problem and keep my profile?

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Have you tried if you have the same problems (around the macOS release) if you use the lutraconsulting installer instead?

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• operating_system was changed from OSX to macOS
• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

[qgib]

Author Name: Alister Hood (@AlisterH)

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Can you clarify which "profile" you mean? It sounds like you may be talking about your user profile in the operating system.
If so, you probably need to look at clearing out the QGIS profile instead.

[qgib]

Author Name: Gavin Fleming (@gubuntu)

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I haven't tried the Lutra installer yet.

I am talking about QGIS profile, not the OS profile.

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Gavin Fleming wrote:

I haven't tried the Lutra installer yet.

if you can please try it.

[gubuntu]

This entry in QGIS3.ini is the cause

[GRASS]
browser\import\crsTransform=Approximate
browser\import\external=true
gidbase\custom=false
gidbase\customDir=
modules\config\custom=true
modules\config\customDir=/Applications/GRASS-7.4.1.app/Contents/MacOS
modules\debug=false
region\color=#ff0000
region\width=0
showTopoLayers=false
windows\tools\geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0+\0\0\x2\xe1\0\0\x1\xfd\0\0\0\0\0\0\0+\0\0\x2\xe1\0\0\x1\xfd\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x6\x90\0\0\0\0\0\0\0+\0\0\x2\xe1\0\0\x1\xfd)

[jef-n]

Is it just the geometry part?

[gubuntu]

no it's the path
modules\config\customDir=/Applications/GRASS-7.4.1.app/Contents/MacOS

[PeterPetrik]

looks like read

QGIS/src/providers/grass/qgsgrassoptions.cpp

Line 66 in 2d1aa68

QString customModulesDir = settings.value( mModulesSettingsPath + "/customDir" ).toString();

struggling to find where I can see the dialog where you can actually set this for GRASS provider? any help @gioman ?

[PeterPetrik]

at the moment the GRASS is taken from all-in-one bundle, so I do not expect that this is likely to happen ...

[gioman]

at the moment the GRASS is taken from all-in-one bundle, so I do not expect that this is likely to happen ...

@PeterPetrik so I guess I don't need to check this.