'bzr explore' unexpectedly throwing MS Visual C++ runtime error at startup

[DeeJay]

Thanks Simon - worked for me too. I'm breathing again now.

DJ

PS: I've written up a bug report - I've add your workaround to it.


On 04/02/2010, Simon Kersey <Simon.Kersey at ipl.com> wrote:
> Don't know what the bug is but I deleted explorer.conf from 'C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\bazaar\2.0\explorer' and Explorer
> started ok.
>
> The problem is caused by saving your preferences.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> Simon Kersey
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com [mailto:bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com] On Behalf Of DeeJay
> Sent: 04 February 2010 09:20
> To: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Subject: 'bzr explore' unexpectedly throwing MS Visual C++ runtime error at startup
>
> I'm not bug-reporting this in the first instance because I fear it is
> a local issue.
>
> WinXP, with bzr-2.1.0rc1-1-setup.exe installer has been running
> happily for several days. This morning, on trying to run bzr-explorer,
> I get a Microsoft Visual C++ runtime error. The console reports
> "QVariant::load(QDataStream &s): type list unknown to QVariant."
> Nothing is written in .bzr.log
>
> I've tried uninstalling Bzr via Add/Remove programs, and then
> re-installed from the  bzr-2.1.0rc1-1-setup.exe installer that was
> saved on my system from the previous install. No improvement.
>
> Other tools from the qbzr suite seem to run correctly, so it isn't
> that the Qt support is completely dead.
>
> Calm logic leads to the unpleasant conclusion that if I've removed and
> re-installed bzr and friends then the problem must be elsewhere in my
> system. But where and how/why has it got broken?
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
>
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