Re: Dia freeze up

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 12.09.2012 00:46, Michael Ross wrote:
> I never did find a temp file.  I may be looking in the wrong place.  Hints?
Paste the link as I gave it in the Explorer address line. If no file opens 
try to navigate to %TEMP% alone. IIRC the default setting on Windows is to 
hide the temporary directory.
The file gets newly created with every launch of Dia, so it will only 
contain useful information if you get it directly after a freeze up.

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Michael Ross<michael e ross gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hello Hans,
> >
> > I may have spoken too soon about re install fixing it, but it is easy
> > so I will try again.
> >
> > Also the anti-alias - do you mean the setting in View Defaults?  I
> > have that unchecked.
> >
> > I don't understand "antialiased (cairo) rendering" if that is different.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Hans Breuer<hans breuer org>  wrote:
> > > 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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