PCBnew's OpenGL mode crashes OS X

[Warren Young]

I have two different iMacs that crash quickly in PCBnew when you enter OpenGL mode in order to begin using the new push-and-shove router.

The one I'm on at the moment is a 5K Retina iMac with the upgraded AMD R9 M295X GPU. It took me about a minute to crash PCBnew. (See attached crash report.)

An older iMac (2010ish) I have elsewhere crashes almost immediately after you begin routing. I do not have a crash report for it on hand, but I can collect one tomorrow if that would be useful.

This is with a January 16, 2015 build made using this Homebrew tap: https://github.com/metacollin/homebrew-kicad

This *may* be a duplicate of this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1332438 I'm filing it separately because that report seems more specific than I can comfortably be. I can't tie my crashes to anything more specific than routing in push-and-shove mode.

[Tomasz Wlostowski (twlostow)]

Hi Warren,

The issue from your crash report was fixed in revision 5434.

Could you give a try for the fresh nightly build (DMGs available):
http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/osx/

Cheers,
Tom

[Tomasz Wlostowski (twlostow)]

Rev 5434 fix working on OSX Yosemite. Closing.

[Warren Young (tangentsoft)]

A few minutes of playing with it on both Macs suggests it's fixed for me, too. (Can't prove a negative, but...)

[Godzil (godzil)]

It's maybe not related to the problem of this bug report, but I have exactly the same problem with PCB new that crash a lot when in OpenGL mode using the new router.