How to report errors of (complex) crashes?

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A project I’m working on just crashed. The file is intact, nothing is lost, but it is 100% reproduce able. As soon as I delete 1 particular piece of track (I have yet to try if other tracks can’t be deleted as well) it completely freezes and quits, with only a Hex address as error code.

I have no doubt that I’ll find my way out by restarting, reloading the file, messing around until it works, but before I do I’d like to make some sort of bug report. However the only information from the crash is the hex error code, and I can peak around in some assembly code with VS just-in-time debugger. I’m willing to send anything with regards to files and error codes, memory values etc to somebody if necessary for debugging, but I don’t know where to start.

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Thanks Rene, I did report it there, but I was looking for a bit of explanation on what information would be useful.

It’s here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1849876

I just included everything I could find, and perhaps that’s all there is as there’s no way in telling what might be useful and what not.

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Keep an eye on your bug report. If the devs need more information they will ask you there.

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Is that track locked? If so, it’s a bug that has been recently fixed.

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Yes Jeff, it turned out to be the “delete locked track”-bug which has already been fixed for the next release.

The error itself however was very unclear to me, it took me a while to realize what caused it.

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