I have been filming videos for Contextual Electronics and have had multiple crashes while fiming due to the fact that I’m now on the nightly build. Would love to hear about a stable-ish version with a range of newer features that is stable on Ubuntu 14.04. I realize it may have been silly for me to start doing nightlies while filming videos (and have been told as much by multiple people) but to be honest, this is part of keeping up with the newer features and a dynamic project like KiCad.
Not sure about the nightly builds, but I’ve been building KiCAD in my Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit PC, based on the latest commits, and I have a very good experience with it. I reported a of couple of rashes in the pass, but the developers have been very good at fixing them.
Just downloading the build script file “kicad-install.sh”, and use it for re-building every time you want to. I found that removing the existing source tree in the home directory sometime is necessary to get a clean and complete build. So here are my routing commands for building a fresh KiCAD:
rm -rf ~/kicad_sources
bash ~/Download/kicad-install.sh --install-or-update
I am using the latest source available for committing bug reports. I can;t I ever face a systemic crash.
Chris, what was the conditions? You was using GAL?
Was there a segfault?
I was using GAL but a similar behavior happened when I swapped over to OpenGL as well. Basically any time I did a copper pour/fill it would start calculating it and then boom, it was gone. Not sure how to tell if there was a segfault, the error messaging was ineffectual.
I haven’t had many problems, but in the past I had downloaded and built one version. Now the nightly builds are updating much more often.
I your design accessible through your github fort testing it?
Recently reports has been made against crashes in regard to filling, see [1]. It it an issue with wx, there is a fix.
Ah ha. That’s comforting I’m not the only one, I’ll need to check the known bugs next time, esp related to that nightly build. Explains why people who are building it themselves aren’t seeing the issue.
Is it an Ubuntu specific issue? Because under Arch Linux I never had this issue.
I am using 5376 on windows (build from http://kicad.nosoftware.cz/ ) and for now pretty stable.
However my experience with KiCad is that I have to save often, and often 
Especially when switching to a different canvas (openGL etc).
Whenever I am in a pause, looking to the design to figure out my next step, I just hit Ctrl-S.
This also helps getting back easy to an previous ‘version’ when using dropbox
Kind of nice versioning system that way (on top of github).