Re: Dia freeze up

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09.09.2012 16:32, Michael Ross wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This happens often, and I don't know how to trouble shoot it to provide
> better information.
Checking changes in your usage pattern could be a starting point (or maybe 
you are seeing more freezes with Dia 0.97.2 than with Dia 0.97.1?)

> Running 0.97.2 on Win7
There was a big dependency update with the last minor update of Dia with 
the dia-installer. So you might trigger some bug comming with that update.

> Just now I was placing an arc between to circle centers.  The 3rd pick is
> to change the diameter, when tried to do this it got stuck and I have the
> busy cursor.   I will have to kill the program to get it free, start again,
> and loose my work.
I recently had a freeze in cairo related to arcs with invalid parameters. 
Are you using the antialiased (cairo) rendering? If so the probabilty of 
freezes might be reduced by switching to the non-antialiased.

> This happens nearly every time I use Dia.   I have not kept good track of
> what I am doing when this happens.  It may only be the arc, but it may be
> other functions as well.
Maybe the log-file %TEMP%\dia--0.97.2.log contains more information.

> Any ideas about how to stop it without killing Dia?  Any ideas on how to
> tell what causes the problem?
Not that I thought it would help, but last time reinstallation seems to 
have solved your problem (-:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2012-June/msg00087.html

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