Hi.
I can’t route the trace.
When I route from P1 to P2 or from P2 to the resistor, the program crashes.
If I route from the resistor to P2, everything is fine.
I don’t understand why, what am I doing wrong?
Can anyone help?
This is the contact pad for footprints P2 and P4.
P1 and P3 are similar footprints, only slightly larger than the hole and contact pad.
KiCAD 9.0.5
I checked again. When starting tracing from any of the P1, P2, P3, or P4 points, the program crashes.
The project is archived.
test_1.zip (25.8 KB)
Old computer? Video drivers? Viruses?
Laptop HP
AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics
There don’t seem to be any viruses.
I recently updated to version 9.0.5.
I created a similar project using 8.0.9, and everything works without problems.
I just checked my 9.0.5 and everything is fine, no crashes. Do you have Windows 11? If so, which version?
Windows 10 version 22H2
AMD Ryzen™ 3 5300U Drivers Try updating your video driver.
I updated the driver, but the result is the same: the program crashes.
You write that everything works for you. Have you tested my project?
I too was able to route the PCB in your test project without issue on 9.0.5 with Win10. If the other suggestions don’t help, maybe try uninstalling 9.0.5 and reinstall fresh? Best of luck.
I had version 9.0.4 installed, but I didn’t uninstall it. I installed 9.0.5 on top.
I’ll try uninstalling and reinstalling.
I also usually just install over the the top of prior and did so with 9.0.5 release over 9.0.5 RC1. No problem routing your test PCB. Maybe also run a checkdisk on your drive? I dunno- good luck. Maybe download 9.0.5 again before you reinstall fresh?
I do not have KiCad V9 yet, so I can’t try your project, but it seems most logical the problem is not caused by the project itself. It’s good to see you’ve already installed V9.0.5, which is the latest and greatest KiCad version. Where did you get it from? Even though the official version from KiCad’s website is easy to obtain, for some reason there are apparently still people who download KiCad from some “other source”, which is possibly untrustworthy.
These things tend to hide themselves.
Yes, that should be OK. It’s quite normal for KiCad.
And I do agree with updating video drivers, it’s one of the most common problems with KiCad, although it usually does not result in a direct crash.
Another thing you can try is to do some long term stress test of your PC to check whether there is anything wrong with the hardware.
And for the rest, you can turn on crash reporting.
I downloaded it from the official website in Europe.
I had a problem when the first version 8 was released. I downloaded the package from the official website, and it had a virus. I didn’t install it at the time. Then, after some time, I downloaded it again, and there were no viruses.
I downloaded version 9.0.5 yesterday from the European website. I downloaded it again today. The files are the same. I checked the package for viruses before installing it. There were no viruses.
I haven’t tried reinstalling yet.
I have all versions 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 installed.
Everything works fine from version 5 to version 8.
I noticed the library paths in version 9: for some reason, version 8 is listed. However, when I open the path to any library separately, it addresses the library version 9.
Could this be the cause?
I uninstalled it. There were problems during uninstallation. It’s possible I installed it for a single user. I reinstalled everything to default, without transferring the settings from version 8. It started working properly.
I still haven’t figured out what was causing the crashes. It might be because I transferred the program settings from version 8.
Thanks everyone for your help.
The same on Kubuntu 24.04. After upgrading to 9.0.5, when start tracing on PCB editor, it crashes.
I’ve tried to delete the kicad cache, but didn’t work.
Edit:
Output log:
kicad[6769]: segfault at fffffffffffffff8 ip 00007248371d0337 sp 0000724868b87150 error 5 in _pcbnew.kiface[7248363b6000+1525000] likely on CPU 3 (core 1, socket 0)
How can I downgrade to 9.0.4?
To my knowledge, there has never been a virus in an official KiCad Windows build since at least V4 days. There may have been a false positive, installers frequently do this.
Solved renaming the config directory.
~/.config/kicad/9.0
It’s created from scratch when kicad is executed for the first time.
It works now, but you’ll have to recover all the modifications made in configurations.
Renaming the configuration directory is a good trouble shooting technique, and KiCad just assumes it’s a fresh install, and create a new directory with defaults.
You can use a program like Meld Merge to view, examine and merge differences in your settings, as all the files are human readable text.
Yes, but step by step and testing on every one, because there must be something V9.0.5 doesn’t like at all.
