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Unity 5.2.0f2: Editor sometimes freezes when leaving play mode

Discussion in '5.2 Beta' started by Peter77, Aug 27, 2015.

  1. Peter77

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    The editor sometimes freezes when leaving play mode (Windows 7). The only option to continue is to kill the Unity.exe process and restart the editor.

    Anyone else having this problem?

    PS: The editor freezes, does not crash as reported here.
     
    Peter77, Aug 27, 2015
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  2. Alex-Lian

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    Please grab a crash dump via Task Manager and submit a bug and report the # here.
     
    Alex-Lian, Aug 27, 2015
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  3. Peter77

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    I'm not able to reproduce the freeze anymore. Now it also crashes every time I leave play mode, bug reported as:

    (Case 723283) 5.2: Editor crash when leaving play mode

    I guess it's a duplicate of this one, but who knows.
     
    Peter77, Aug 28, 2015
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  4. Peter77

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    Today the editor is freezing again when leaving playmode. Submitted the following bug-report, dump attached as well.

    (Case 723639) 5.2: Editor sometimes freezes when leaving playmode
     
    Peter77, Aug 29, 2015
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    movra, Aug 30, 2015
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  6. Alex-Lian

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    A quick look at the bug seems to be something related to logging regarding recalculating the hierarchy view. Having folk take a look.
     
    Alex-Lian, Sep 2, 2015
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  7. shawn

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    Hi, we're having a difficult time reproducing this bug. So looking for any kind of information that would help give us a clue.

    One question I have, does this still happen in an empty project?
     
    shawn, Sep 2, 2015
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  8. XxPleYxX

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    I had the same problem and I solved it by disabling "Preferences / General / Enable Alpha Numeric Sorting". I think something is wrong with "Alphabetical Sort".

    This is the loop that cause the freeze.

     
    XxPleYxX, Sep 2, 2015
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  9. Peter77

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    No, I haven't noticed the issue in an empty project, but I didn't spent hours trying to reproduce it there.

    I don't do anything special to trigger the bug. I just press Play, play the game for a few seconds or minutes and press Stop.

    I can repro the bug with my project rather easily, but also not always. It requires a few tries:
    * Start Unity
    * Load Scene in editor
    * Press Play
    * Play 3 minutes
    * Press Stop
    => Editor freezing or crashing.

    The game is loading and creating game objects while it's running. I might had have "Alphabetical Sort" activated, but I'm not certain because I switch between Alphabetical and Transform-Sort back and forth as needed. I often use the "Mute Audio" option in the editor. I usually have VS 2012 open the entire time.
     
    Peter77, Sep 2, 2015
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  10. shawn

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    So it seems like this is a project-specific kind of bug (enabling Alpha Numeric Sorting isn't helping us reproduce it). We'll need a project that reproduces this behavior to investigate further. If anyone has one that they are willing to upload to a bug, please do so and provide a case number here.
     
    shawn, Sep 7, 2015
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  11. XxPleYxX

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    Case number 725519
     
    Last edited: Sep 7, 2015
    XxPleYxX, Sep 7, 2015
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  12. shawn

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    Thanks! We've managed to reproduce it now. We're looking into it.
     
    shawn, Sep 7, 2015
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  13. shawn

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    So we've identified the root issue. The use of DontDestroyOnLoad() along with AlphaNumeric Sorting is causing the crash. (The repro project submitted has InControl in it with DontDestroyOnLoad being used). We're still looking into the fix.
     
    shawn, Sep 7, 2015
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  14. WI_Lee

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    Hi Shawn,

    Wondering if this could be related to a similar crash bug I reported? Case number 720757.

    Thanks.
     
    WI_Lee, Sep 7, 2015
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  15. shawn

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    Unlikely, but we're still digging into that one too.
     
    shawn, Sep 8, 2015
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  16. liang.zhao

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    725519 is fixed. It's a stupid mistake. Forgot to clean the sorted list, when unloading the scene.
     
    liang.zhao, Sep 8, 2015
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  17. gekidoslair

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    100% repro here. Submitted bug report. Will try disabling alpha sort to see if that fixes it.
     
    gekidoslair, Sep 9, 2015
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  18. gekidoslair

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    disabling alpha sort seems to have fixed the issue.
     
    gekidoslair, Sep 9, 2015
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  19. nocanwin

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    disabling alphabetic sorting fixed the issue for me too.
     
    nocanwin, Sep 9, 2015
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  20. then00b

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    Not sure the status of this at this point but this was also happening to me and after reading the posts here, was remedied by disabling alphanumeric sorting.
     
    then00b, Sep 9, 2015
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  21. liang.zhao

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    The fix will be in 5.2.0 patch 1.
     
    liang.zhao, Sep 9, 2015
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    ArachnidAnimal, Sep 9, 2015
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  23. shawn

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    This is also fixed with the same fix in 5.2.0 patch 1.
     
    shawn, Sep 9, 2015
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  24. Tomi-Tukiainen

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    I'm having Unity Editor 5.2.0f3 crash or freeze completely white every time after exiting play mode. Alphanumeric sorting disabled. Development environment is Mac / OS-X.

    Case# 726748
     
    Tomi-Tukiainen, Sep 11, 2015
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