Comment 9 for bug 99917

I also had a crash while using "Update Now" and fetching the ipfilter from http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz. There were no error messages, the application simply spontaneously closed.

This occurred twice.

The first time, I went to Preferences - Security and did the following:
1. Checked "Enable IP-Filtering"
2. Checked "Auto-update ipfilter at startup"
3. Added the URL: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz
4. Clicked Update Now
As the progress bar passed 50%, the active parts of the progress window went grey (the application color) and then the application simply disappeared from the screen. Upon re-opening the application and going back into Preferences, none of my changes were there (which is expected as I never pressed "OK."

The second time, I went to Preferences - Security and did the following:
1. Added the URL: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz and pressed OK, then re-opened Preferences
2. Checked "Enable IP-Filtering"
3. Checked "Auto-update ipfilter at startup"
4. pressed OK, then re-opened Preferences
5. Clicked Update Now
Similar to before, as the progress bar passed 50%, the active parts of the progress window went grey (the application color) and then the application simply disappeared from the screen. Upon re-opening the application, the file apparently was successfully fetched. My log contains the comment that 166315 IP-ranges were loaded from ipfilter.dat.

Subsequent restarts of the application are also successful.

I don't know if this additional note is useful, but I do not have "Autoconnect on startup" checked. This means that I was connected when I was in the Preferences dialog and getting the crash on "Update Now," but I was not connected when the list was successfully fetched.

I hope this helps reproduce the problem and/or provides a workaround.

-- Robb