This version is crashing like **** crazy. I don't know why but more on that later. the bigger issue is that this program is supposed to be autosaving my work every 5 minutes. It's not, either that or It's not letting me know post-crash that it has an autosaved version of my work.

In any case, where on Ubuntu does Krita put autosaved files? Is there a way I can dig and maybe find my work? Because I lost a bunch of work from a crash and am on the verge of a freakout.

Thanks

If images haven't been saved before, autosaves are in home, check for "invisible" files starting with a dot. If the file has a name, autosaves are next to the saved file. I haven't seen any problems with autosaving myself, on Linux, though, and I also haven't heard about any crashiness with the appimage, so please give more details so we can figure out whether your system is borked, or whether there's something bad going on inside Krita...

boudewijn wrote:If images haven't been saved before, autosaves are in home, check for "invisible" files starting with a dot. If the file has a name, autosaves are next to the saved file. I haven't seen any problems with autosaving myself, on Linux, though, and I also haven't heard about any crashiness with the appimage, so please give more details so we can figure out whether your system is borked, or whether there's something bad going on inside Krita...

Yeah the file definitely had a name when it crashed, yet even among the hidden files I'm not seeing any autosaved data. There's nothing other then the files themselves. and then copies of that same file with '.kra~" but opening those yeilds exact replicas of the save files. So yeah, it doesn't appear this is autosaving.

As far as the crash goes, what info do you need? I just remember being in the middle of putting down a brush stroke and then bam, the program just up and closed. Generally speaking, it'll do that when I'm either in the middle of zooming, or transforming. And there's no warning either. No freezing or lag or bad performance. The program will literally just close.

Could you check whether krita from the lime ppa does that as well? That should be debug symbols available.

boudewijn wrote:Could you check whether krita from the lime ppa does that as well? That should be debug symbols available.

When I add the PPA it tells me this:

"older versions of Ubuntu (including 16.04) are not supported by this repository due to outdated version of Qt library provided. Please use AppImage builds instead [0]"

16.04 is me. :/ Which is why I use the Appimage. Is there some way around this?

Yes, that's why we've got appimages. Unfortunately, appimages don't have debug symbols. There's no workaround, other than updating to a more recent version of Ubuntu...

Okay, I need to get my affairs in order first, but once I have everything backed up and have finished what I'm immediately working on, I'll go ahead and upgrade ubuntu and see if I still have problems. I'm going to keep this open and if I don't see any issues, I'll close it and mark it as answered. I've been a bit reluctant to upgrade, as I run a lot of software through wine, and don't want it all to break. Hopefully it doesn't.

If you boot from a GParted Live CD, you can copy your root and home partitions to a spare hard drive to act as a backup. Then, if disaster stikes after an upgrade or whatever, you can boot up from GParted Live again and use the backup copy to restore your system to its original state. (Pay attention to the boot flag on the root partition.)

Okay! Updated to ubuntu 18.04, installed krita via the PPA, booted it up, painted for a while, then one fateful brush stroke, the program suddenly froze, then after a few moments closed itself out and crashed.

I'm hype, let's do this. What info do you need from my computer and where can I find it?

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May 20 12:26:20 bryan-desktop kernel: [ 5043.128427] Thread (pooled)[4941]: segfault at 50 ip 00007f83adca82d1 sp 00007f83345f86a0 error 4 in libkritaimage.so.16.0.0[7f83ada2a000+419000]

https://imgur.com/a/2ed9XKF

Really sorry, I need to get back to work. I've already lost enough precious time with this. I can't find where the logs are located and nobody has told me. So I've just fished for as much info as I can and put it all here.

I actually happened to be running krita via a terminal and the moment it crashed it said:

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Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've included a picture of my terminal as well as an ubuntu system crash notice dialoge that showed up a few moments after krita crashed. I then opened a system log file and found the line printed the moment krita crashed. I've pasted that line above as well. If you need a copy of my system file, I have it.

Please, I really want to use krita crash free. I've lost a lot of work via crashes, and they happen enough to keep me from performing my best. If you need anything else from me, please let me know.