Its been a while since I’ve used KiCAD. Today I installed 7.0.2, up from 5.1.5. The software hangs when I perform certain actions. I can open a project, and create a new project, but that is it. As soon as I click on anything after the initial project creating, KiCAD hangs and eventually shows “Not Responding” in the title bar. I have done two clean installs, but did not resolve my issue.
Any ideas what I could do to fix this issue?
These are problems exclusively of your hardware and operating system… Remote help here won’t help
Every time I see that application not responding message my demented mind turns to this scene:
Sorry, back to your usual stream of KiCad problems and solutions. 
Same issue here. Been using 5.1.10 for quite a while, decided to try out 7.02. The main project manager loads, but if I try to load the schematic editor or PCB editor, nothing happens except the busy cursor. If I click the project manager afterwards, I get the Not Responding.
If I try to load the eeschema directly, Task manager shows it is running, but nothing appears on screen.
Windows 10 Pro - 21H2 - 19044.2846 - Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4190.0
I was able to get things running. When I installed the first time, I was given the option to load my settings from a previous version, which I did. Looking through other posts, I found mention of deleting AppData/Roaming/7.0 to fix issues, so I uninstalled, deleted this folder, and reinstalled. This time, when it asked if I wanted to import settings, I said no and let it use the defaults. Now I can load eeschema and the PCB editor, as well as older projects.
Based on this, the issue relates to importing settings from older versions, in my case 5.1.10.
PC is not the best, but no potato either. I was able to get it running. I unistalled 7.0.2 and then manually deleted any folder related to kicad in %appdata% roaming and local. Reinstalled and able to run now.
Possibly some file incompatibilities between versions. I did loose several libraries that I would need to re-download
For anyone else in the future, if you have such a lockup. Please go to Task Manager > Details, find kicad.exe and right click “Create Dump File”
Zip the file and upload it somewhere like google drive and please create a issue on GitLab marked confidential reporting said issue and a link to the file.
The dump file would should let us identify the problem pretty easily. Unfortunately the file may be a few hundred megs.
Knowing a little about how programs can be written I suppose there is less risk if you not skip any main version. I moved from V5 to V6. Opened and saved all my projects (schematic, PCB and libraries). Then I moved from V6 to V7. Opened and saved all my projects (I expect I will need them). I plan to do the same when V8 will come.
Thanks for this - solved my problem
I just ran into this problem after updating to 7.0.2 from 7.0.0. I had previously been using 7.0.0 with no trouble, though I haven’t put it through its paces as much as I did Kicad 6. I first had essentially the same thing happen earlier today with 7.0.0, so I updated hoping that hanging issue would be fixed, and now it seems to have spread to everything.
In my experience, this isn’t a typical hang. I can still swap between the various kicad windows and they all correctly redraw all window elements to screen, but when I click on anything, it just doesn’t do anything, including show any ui elements which might indicate that something has been clicked or is clickable.
Anyway, I’m currently zipping up the dump file and will make a new issue as soon as it’s done. It’s about 1gig before zipping, so it’ll take a few minutes.
Done. Here’s the link for marekr or any other people with high enough permission to view it:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/14705
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