Bug 2411828 - kicad: KiCad crashes immediately when opening the PCB Editor (Pcbnew) on Fedora 43
Summary: kicad: KiCad crashes immediately when opening the PCB Editor (Pcbnew) on Fedo...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2401327
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kicad
Version: 43
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steven A. Falco
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-11-02 07:59 UTC by Lungu Gabriel Dimitrie
Modified: 2025-11-26 14:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2025-11-26 14:18:26 UTC
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Description Lungu Gabriel Dimitrie 2025-11-02 07:59:35 UTC
The KiCad application (Version 9.0.5-1.fc43, from the official Fedora repositories) consistently crashes on Fedora 43.

The main project manager window opens correctly, and the Schematic Editor (Eeschema) also appears to open.

However, any attempt to launch the PCB Editor (Pcbnew)—either by clicking the icon or opening a .kicad_pcb file—causes the entire application to terminate instantly without any on-screen error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch the KiCad application.
2.Launch the KiCad application.
3.Click the "PCB Editor" icon in the main project manager.
Actual Results:
The entire KiCad application crashes and disappears.

Expected Results:
The PCB Editor (Pcbnew) window should open, displaying the board layout.

Additional Information:
Running on a Lenovo X380 Yoga.

Full version information from "Help -> About KiCad":
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Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 9.0.5-1.fc43, release build

Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.2.8
    FreeType 2.13.3
    HarfBuzz 11.5.0
    FontConfig 2.17.0
    libcurl/8.15.0 OpenSSL/3.5.4 zlib/1.3.1.zlib-ng brotli/1.1.0 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.66.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.10

Platform: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition), 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, gnome, wayland

Build Info:
    Date: Oct  1 2025 00:00:00
    wxWidgets: 3.2.8 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.83.0
    OCC: 7.9.1
    Curl: 8.15.0
    ngspice: 45.2
    Compiler: GCC 15.2.1 with C++ ABI 1020
    KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale: 
    Lang: en_US
    Enc: UTF-8
    Num: 1,234.5
    Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)
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Comment 2 Steven A. Falco 2025-11-26 14:18:26 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2401327 ***


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