Plan G 3.1.2 crashes all the time

[conrel]

Hey!!

I would love to use this great application but in this state it's absolute useless for me. It just crashes again and again with no obvious reproducable trigger ... I even do not have X-Plane open! I start planning and after some rather short time Plan G crashes irreversibly.

So here is my setup:

- Windows 7 with all latest updates
- latest X-Plane 10.32 with Navigraph 1412 cycle installed into \X-Plane 10\Resources\default data
- Plan-G 3.1.2 installed and run with admin privileges

The log file is not very informative to me so I thaught I let you guys have a look at it... perhaps you have a clue.

Thanks in advance for any help

[tim arnot]

There's nothing particularly indicative in the log file. If you look at the Windows crash report (Event Viewer), that'll show a few useful things like faulting module and so on, which may help narrow it down.

The only suggestion I have right now that can help with random crashes is to put a copy of uiautomationcore.dll into the Plan-G folder.

[conrel]

Ok here is the crash report. Unfortunately it's in german, but I guess that shouldn't be a big problem.

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Problemsignatur:
  Problemereignisname: APPCRASH
  Anwendungsname: Plan-G3.exe
  Anwendungsversion: 3.1.2.101
  Anwendungszeitstempel: 54aaa0ff
  Fehlermodulname: StackHash_0bb3
  Fehlermodulversion: 0.0.0.0
  Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 00000000
  Ausnahmecode: c000041d
  Ausnahmeoffset: 75174f11
  Betriebsystemversion: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Gebietsschema-ID: 1031
  Zusatzinformation 1: 0bb3
  Zusatzinformation 2: 0bb32d1d81e4c89d0e2b3701b3fc0531
  Zusatzinformation 3: 7b5e
  Zusatzinformation 4: 7b5e3e582a14ab1e4a6e2f5b74ea7642

uiautomationcore.dll? When I google this dll I get plenty of hits refering to FSX which explains, why I can't find it on my system :) Should I download it from some abigious sources?  8)

[tim arnot]

FSX users also need to download the file, so yes it should be okay just to download it. Just drop it into the Plan-G folder. No guarantee it'll work, but it's worth a punt.

Unfortunately the crash log just says it was Plan-G that crashed, which doesn't get us any further forward.

[lucbu]

Hello Tim

i have the same Proplem here (Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit german with FSX Data). What i have already tryed with no sucess:

- Fresh Installtion from scratch with first deinstallation of the old Version

- changing the Installation directory of PlanG

- copying the UIaumationcore.dll into the PlanG Directoty

- Installation with or without Administrative Rights

- Starting Plan G with or without Administrative Right

- changing the Map Provider

verry frustrating!  :-\

For me it seems that it have something to do with the scrolling and/or zooming Functionality of Plan G
because with nearly 100% propability Plan G crashes when i scroll or zoom the map in or out.

In PlanG.log i found something maybe suspicious a  System.NullReferenceException:

15:54:47.0 ZoomOut_Executed: System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
   bei Plan_G3.ViewModel.MainViewModel.DrawFlightplanMarker(Boolean resize)
   bei Plan_G3.ViewModel.MainViewModel.updateMarkers()
   bei Plan_G3.ViewModel.MainViewModel.MapZoomChanged(Int32 newZoom)
   bei Plan_G3.MainWindow.MainMap_OnMapZoomChanged()
   bei GMap.NET.MapZoomChanged.Invoke()
   bei GMap.NET.Internals.Core.set_Zoom(Int32 value)
   bei GMap.NET.WindowsPresentation.GMapControl.ZoomPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
   bei System.Windows.DependencyObject.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
   bei System.Windows.FrameworkElement.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
   bei System.Windows.DependencyObject.NotifyPropertyChange(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
   bei System.Windows.DependencyObject.UpdateEffectiveValue(EntryIndex entryIndex, DependencyProperty dp, PropertyMetadata metadata, EffectiveValueEntry oldEntry, EffectiveValueEntry& newEntry, Boolean coerceWithDeferredReference, Boolean coerceWithCurrentValue, OperationType operationType)
   bei System.Windows.DependencyObject.SetValueCommon(DependencyProperty dp, Object value, PropertyMetadata metadata, Boolean coerceWithDeferredReference, Boolean coerceWithCurrentValue, OperationType operationType, Boolean isInternal)
   bei System.Windows.DependencyObject.SetValue(DependencyProperty dp, Object value)
   bei Plan_G3.ViewModel.MainViewModel.ZoomOut_Executed()
15:54:54.6 NdbsInBounds 108
15:54:54.7 VorsInBounds 89
15:54:54.9 AirportsInBounds 193
15:54:55.9 AirspaceInBounds 586

The older Version of Plan G (Version 3.1.1.94) works well on my other PC.  - very strange

Thanks  :)

best regards
Lucas

[tim arnot]

Your crash seems specifically associated with redrawing the flight plan.Can you confirm the crash goes away if the flight plan is not loaded? And then please attach the flight plan.

[conrel]

For me it seems that it have something to do with the scrolling and/or zooming Functionality of Plan G
because with nearly 100% propability Plan G crashes when i scroll or zoom the map in or out.

Interesting, I observed the same behaviour. Allthough Plan G simply crashes earlier, when I zoom.

[lucbu]

Hi Tim,

first i want to say thank you for your fast support.  :)

When the Problem occurs Plan G comes up with an empy Flught Plan Window and an empy Window with Airport Information.
When use zoom use or just scrol the directly without closing the empty windows Plan G crashes immediatly.  This behavior
was reproducible.

But then i close the two empty windows, load an flightplan and close it and the i close Plan G.
After this steps the Problem with the crashes never happen again - very strange

May be be i have something to do with the initialization of Plan G.?

Anyhow now I' am happy  :D

[tim arnot]

Glad you have it working. I'll still keep the issue open though, because there's obviously something going wrong somewhere...

[FlyingAxx]

Glad you have it working. I'll still keep the issue open though, because there's obviously something going wrong somewhere...

From time to time I experience crashes, too. Up to now I didn't see any pattern and the only thing that seems to be common is that Plan-G seems to behave more stable in remote areas. Probably the crashes have to do with building up the overlay graphics.

[conrel]

Not knowing what happened, but my crashes seem to have vanished since XP 10.35 update. Very glad about that! Now I can test this thing ;)