Sean Meighan

Software => Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker => Topic started by: kevinp on July 14, 2015, 10:05:40 PM

Title: Creating New Sequence Crash - 4.1.11
Post by: kevinp on July 14, 2015, 10:05:40 PM

With a sequence open and morph effect previewing on a model, if I then select "new sequence" and go through the steps of setting up a sequence, xLights is crashing hard when clicking "done" at the end of the wizard.  No debug report is being being generated.

If I have a sequence open and no effect previewing, I can create a new sequence without an issue.

I can only recreate this crash when the morph effect is previewing (so far), multiple sequences.

I did get another crash when I was going click happy, but did get a debug report which I'm attaching.

Running under OS X if that makes a difference.

Title: Re: Creating New Sequence Crash - 4.1.11
Post by: gerry on July 16, 2015, 08:57:14 PM

Hi Kevin,

Some other sequencers  do not allow multiple instances to be open , but xlights does.

It used to not be a problem even a few weeks ago, but I suspect that recent enhancements may be causing  a contention issue in some scenarios, if you have multiple sequences open as it tries to update to the same control file e.g xlights_rgbeffects (just my guess).

Title: Re: Creating New Sequence Crash - 4.1.11
Post by: kevinp on July 17, 2015, 04:48:09 AM

Could be, but in my case, there is only one instance of xLights running.  I don't think multiple instances of the program is even possible under OS X.

Funny enough, I went to recreate this crash this morning and a debug report was generated this time.  So it's attached here for Dan and Gil to look into.

Title: Re: Creating New Sequence Crash - 4.1.11
Post by: dkulp on July 17, 2015, 05:33:22 AM

Quote from: kevinp on July 17, 2015, 04:48:09 AM

Could be, but in my case, there is only one instance of xLights running.  I don't think multiple instances of the program is even possible under OS X.

Only from the command line.   You can do "open -n -a /Applications/xLights.app" and a second one would open.

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Funny enough, I went to recreate it this crash morning and a debug report was generated this time.  So it's attached here for Dan and Gil to look into.

Looks like the Affects Assist panel isn't being cleared of it's state when a sequence is closed.   It's still trying to display elements from the closed sequence.   Definitely a bug.

Title: Re: Creating New Sequence Crash - 4.1.11
Post by: gerry on July 17, 2015, 06:24:22 AM

Quote from: kevinp on July 17, 2015, 04:48:09 AM

Could be, but in my case, there is only one instance of xLights running.  I don't think multiple instances of the program is even possible under OS

Oh... Under windows it is quite easy. In fact of late it appears to me that xlights takes much longer to start up. So I double click again ( and again) and the next thing I know there are multiple versions open resulting in a crash after awhile . No debug but error on the rbgeffects file.

So now, am very careful...mostly.... :)