V8.0.5 Crashing

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Hi,
I haven’t used KiCad for a few months. I attempted to open an existing project today - the Project Manager seemed to be okay, but when opening Schematic (or PCB) it partially draws the form then freezes - sudo kill kicad to exit…

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My system is Linux Suse Tumbleweed

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 8.0.5, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.5
FreeType 2.13.2
HarfBuzz 10.0.1
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.10.1 OpenSSL/3.1.4 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.6 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.10.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.62.1 OpenLDAP/2.6.8

Platform: openSUSE Tumbleweed, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, KDE, wayland

Build Info:
Date: Sep 18 2024 10:28:24
wxWidgets: 3.2.5 (wchar_t,STL containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.86.0
OCC: 7.7.2
Curl: 8.10.1
ngspice: 43
Compiler: GCC 14.2.0 with C++ ABI 1019

Any clues?

Kind regards
Pedro

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Sounds like a graphics driver issue or potentially Wayland. Try booting into a non Wayland session and see if that works

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I use openSUSE but not Tumbleweed; I don’t want to be a tester. My install on 15.6 uses a community build of KiCad which uses x11 instead of wayland.

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 8.0.4, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.6
	FreeType 2.10.4
	HarfBuzz 8.3.0
	FontConfig 2.14.2
	libcurl/8.6.0 OpenSSL/3.1.4 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.7 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.1 libssh/0.9.8/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 OpenLDAP/2.4.46

Platform: openSUSE Leap 15.6, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, KDE, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Jul 29 2024 12:00:00
	wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,STL containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.75.0
	OCC: 7.7.0
	Curl: 8.6.0
	ngspice: 43
	Compiler: GCC 11.3.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
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Thanks for your reply @Seth_h. I should have said it’s the same with X11.

@retiredfeline I know that I’m the guinea pig :joy:, the bleeding edge… How’s retirement going :rofl:

I have seen a few updates to KiCAD over the last few months, I suspect something has happened there. I have noticed that there is another update coming through, I’ll apply that and see what happens…

Kind regards
Pedro

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Very nice, no need to hustle or prove anything to anybody, that’s the number one mistake retirees make. The truth is nobody gives a *#_&$ what you do with your life.

But coming back on topic it sounds more like a video driver issue. I use the NVIDIA closed source drivers even though I would prefer open source, because there are less issues.

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@retiredfeline There’s quite a bit of truth there…

The good news is - I have just applied the latest update, and it’s working AGAIN! (only tried Wayland thus far).

Now I just have to remember what I was going to do to the schematic :rofl: :joy: :rofl: :joy:

Kind regards
Pedro

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Hmm maybe that’s why the community package I use is still at 8.0.4. I see that the packager recently pushed some updates to wx, might be preliminary to updating KiCad. I’m glad I don’t tailgate distros or applications; less chance of a software bumper collision; let someone else work it out first. :wink:

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Yes, but what an exiting life I have! Not knowing what I’m going to be facing from day-to-day :rofl:

I just looked the before and after versioning - wxWidgets 3.2.5 has be updated to 3.2.6

Gee, I’d better go and check all my projects that are wxWidgets dependent - nah, I’ll have a nap instead… :joy:

Kind regards
Pedro