Symbols become question marks after renaming hierarchical sheet

[Aleksandr Sh]

Change hierarchical sheet file name field, after opening the sheet, all symbols become question marks.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Casey Kelso (caseykelso)]

I've seen this issue on 5.1.2 several times, I don't have repro steps yet but mine are different than renaming a hierarchical sheet.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

Do the symbols stay question marks after restarting kicad? (meaning save the changes, close kicad, are the question marks still here? If not then at least the files are generated correctly and it is only a problem of creating the internal data structures at run time)

[Aleksandr Sh (dsa-t)]

Yes, it fixes after restarting eeschema.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I cannot duplicate this by just changing the name of sheet. I can get this if I change the sheet name and the associated sheet file. Are you that you are seeing this when just changing the sheet name? I tested using KiCad 5.1.2-84-g18f7d0129 on Linux.

[Aleksandr Sh (dsa-t)]

By "sheet file name field" I meant changing "File name" from the dialog, not "Sheet name".

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 133ff9b552bd4fdd2d9f557724911d454e2911a7
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=133ff9b552bd4fdd2d9f557724911d454e2911a7