Massive junction symbols

[gvcastellano]

I’ve just opened a bug at junction symbols become massive blobs (#16455) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab for a strange problem in the schematic editor where when I move a collection of components so as to connect with some open wires, what appear to be huge junction symbols appear, obscuring almost everything.

Posting here in case anyone’s seen anything like this. A couple of searched got no obvious match.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

Version info below. Pretty sure this is some kind of corruption but after a couple of passes through the .kicad_sch nothing jumped out at me. Thanks for any suggestions.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor

Version: 6.0.2+dfsg-1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.16

Platform: Linux 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, mate, x11

Build Info:
Date: Feb 12 2022 09:36:02
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.81.0
ngspice: 36
Compiler: GCC 11.2.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[gvcastellano]

And my other problem apparently is convincing the KiCad Bot I’ve provided the full version info. I replaced the Sch Ed version with KiCad’s but that didn’t help.

[Piotr]

6.0.2 is one of first V6 releases. There were lot of bugs fixed before V6 last version (6.0.11).
Is there any idea to report a bug for V6 when V7 was released an year ago and for not last V6 release?

[gvcastellano]

O I guess we are up to 7, aren’t we? I was just running what’s delivered with Ubuntu LTE 22 (Jammy) and have only just started converting my materials from earlier versions.

I’ll step up.

[gvcastellano]

Not wanting to make the leap to 7 in one swell foop I added kicad-6.0 to the repositories and things look fine on 6.0.11.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-6.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kicad

[ML9104]

6.0.11 is a very good and stable version, on some points better than 7.0 (depends on your needs).
Stay with it, unless you need to import 7.0 projects/files.

[davidsrsb]

I don’t recommend stating off with an obsolete version, you will get “upgrade now” comments to every question.
The 7.0.x series will be kept by many users worried about stability well into 2024 after V8.0.0 is launched

[BobZ]

@gvcastellano

one swell foop

Finally someone who speaks my language!

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/spoonerism#:~:text=A%20spoonerism%20is%20a%20speech,."%20You%20get%20the%20idea.

[jmk]

@gvcastellano

There is not much point in opening an issue for a near two year old release. That obvious fault would have been fixed long ago.

If a problem occurs on a current stable release or current development test release; then, yes please, file a report.