Hi,
I use KiCad on Windows at home, but I’m currently on location for work so I thought I’d do some work on projects using my work laptop. If I launch PCBNew from KiCAD and then close PCBNew, about a second or two after it closes, I get a dialog saying KiCad is going to crash. And then it does. The dialog just says KiCad has stopped working.
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If I launch PCBNew directly without using the KiCad launcher, then it crashes but complains with the following:
Can’t write buffer ‘fp-info-cache’ to disk
Failed to create a temporary file name (error 5: access is denied)
If a launch it directly but as an administrator, then it closes without a problem. Thinking this was the solution, I tried starting KiCad as an admin, but when I close PCBNew it still crashes KiCad.
I have an admin account, so I then tried setting the permissions on the “fp-info-cache” file in the “bin” directory so that even regular users have full read/write privileges, but it still crashes.
Any thoughts on anything else to try? I’m assuming the problem is related to whatever restrictions, etc the IT department enforces on the machine. I previously ran 4.07 on this same machine without any problems.
I guess I can reinstall KiCad in the “Documents” directory since I know I have full read/write privileges to everything there, but that feels kludgy.
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
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