[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#948626: kicad: Closing pcbnew hangs main kicad process

[Paul "LeoNerd" Evans]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:43:52 +0100
Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu at mailbox.org> wrote:

> Hello Paul,
> in that case I guess kicad is really trying to leave
> the process for some reason.
> 
> That reason is maybe written to stdout. Therefore maybe you
> can run kicad from a terminal and attach its output.
> Probably that could give any hints.

That was my first thought; as explained in my initial bug report:

>> If run from the terminal there is no printed output of any kind.

> Otherwise maybe it is related to the used desktop environment,
> if xorg or wayland is in use

I'm using xorg and the xfce desktop.

> or the used project - do
> you observe this behaviour if you just open one
> of the templates?

I observe it for any project, any template; even just opening "pcbnew"
as a standalone program on a blank project then immediately trying to
close it again.

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