system: Windows 11 version 24H2
Hello, I have been working on a project for a couple of weeks and up until now everything had been super stable no issues at all. Today as I was adding in some extra net classes in the Schematic Editor I experienced a random freeze then both Schematic and PCB editor crashed. I did not think much of it so I opened it back up and went back to adding the net classes, a few seconds later it did the same thing. So again rinse, wash, repeat and it happened a third time. I checked out the Event Viewer and was able to grab a copy for each crash, if someone is able to understand the hieroglyphs from that just let me know and I will post it.
Thanks
The event viewer logs don’t usually help. But if you have crash logging on in KiCad, that can. Maybe file a bug report with the steps and include your ID from preferences
Ok, so I did turn that on, I was also able to record it happening in OBS, not sure if that would be any help?. It just keeps crashing back to the main project manager. But at this point I am not able to add any net classes in the Schematic Setup w/o it crashing. Also I will add that this wasn’t happening when I started the project like a couple weeks ago.
Reproducible is good (although frustrating for you)
Please open a ticket on Gitlab using the Help->Report bug function in KiCad
Can you please share what version you’re using, what your crash reporting ID is, and the project that is causing the issue? You can put these in a confidential Gitlab bug report if you’d like.
Ok ya I am in the process of filling one of those out
Oh and I am using version 9.0.1, is the reporting ID the one in the data collection tab?
I filled out a bug report on git lab tilted " V 9.0.1 crashing when adding new net classes in schematic editor".
That’s the one. Please add that, and the project that is causing the crash, to the bug report.
Not to hijack but 9.01 does indeed crash quite regularly, several orders of magnitude better than 9.0.0 and the crashes are quite predictable now, often it is the next operation after a save and is still usually related to adding or using 3rd party symbols or foot prints
Crash data is on so maybe it helps in the long run.
I also don’t know how much of my crashing is related to a bit of a crappy computer with only 4Gb memory - tolerable for now anyway.
Cheers