Eeschema does not start (kicad 5.1.8)

[domapi]

Hi,

I´ve been working with KiCad for some weeks (5.1.8) and everything worked fine.
Today, I made some changes in eeschema. Then, it chrashed and cannot be started again.

I already rebooted my PC, de-installed KiCad, cleared the registry and then re-installed it.
eeschema does not start. It is shown in the task monitor, but the window is not visible.

PCBnew and KiCad itself (starting page with project selction) seems to work.

Anyone any idea what´s going wrong here?

Thanks,
Martin

[paulvdh]

First Edit your first post (by clicking on the pencil icon, and then add the full version info from: KiCad / Help / About / Copy Version Info and paste it below your post.

Recently there was a post with an issue that looks a lot like yours:

5.1.8: Eeschema crash

Hi. I’ve been using KiCad for a while. I just upgraded to v5.1.8_1, on Windows, and am no longer able to open the Eeschema schematic editor. The other components work. When I the schematic button from the main KiCad window, it opens a window with Project Rescue Helper at the top, two blank wide text fields, and below that, 2 images of a symbol. This window is frozen, shows a spinny wheel, and upon attempting to exit it KiCad crashes to desktop. Thoughts? Do I need to roll back to an old version…

Is it the same, or does it just look similar?
His workaround was to go back to KiCad V5.1.7.

[domapi]

5 min ago I found another similiar post. The recommended solution was to delete the user folder within kidcad (user folder (%APPDATA%/kicad). I copied the files and saved them in a different folder. After deletion eeschema can be started again.

Seems to be working !

Now, I´m retrieving all missing libraries etc. …

Thanks a lot!

[eelik]

If you are willing to help with finding the problem, copy each file back to the active configuration folder one by one and try to start KiCad again. At some point it fails and we would know which file causes this.

In any case you should be able to copy fp-lib-table and sym-lib table safely, they restore the missing library information.

[domapi]

Ok, I will try this approach tomorrow and inform about the result.

[domapi]

The file “eeschema” seems to be corrupted. When I copy this one back into the folder, eeschema application freezes. The other files are working fine.

I attached the file in this post. Hope, that helps for your debugging.

The version info is as follows (i am using a PC with Windows 10):

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.8)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.73.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.71.0
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

eeschema (11.9 KB)

[marekr]

This is fixed in the future 5.1.9