Bug#791680: A crash of Qgis Desktop occurs when I try to "save as" a vector layer

[sebastic]

On 2015-07-16 12:16, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 14/07/15 22:04, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 07/14/2015 09:22 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>>> Anything else I can do to debug, or is this the spatialite bug and I
>>> just have to wait for a new version to get into testing ?
>> 
>> Please try to above so we can find out if the deprecated
>> spatialite_init() method is causing the segfault.
> 
> That seems to be the case:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff0141ff4 in spatialite_init ()
>    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspatialite.so.5

Thanks for the confirmation.

>> Today the spatialite transition started so we'll soon have SpatiaLite
>> 4.3.0 in testing, this is part of the solution to the 
>> spatialite_init()
>> related problems. Another part is the upcoming transition to GDAL 
>> 1.11,
>> and for QGIS we'll need the next LTR (2.8.3). QGIS 2.8.2 doesn't have
>> the spatialite_init() related fixes yet.
> 
> Ok, that means that there's not much I can do expect install QGIS 
> master ?

The upstream QGIS nightly packages are an option if you can't wait for 
the 2.8.3 release.

As mentioned in my previous message to this bugreport [1], I'll include 
the spatialite changes from QGIS 2.8.3 as patch in the QGIS 2.8.2 
package in Debian if the 2.8.3 release takes too long.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791680#32

Kind Regards,

Bas