startup crash LV 2009 SP1 (bug?)

[PaulG.]

This has happened a few times, but today was the worst. Frequently I'll get the "LabVIEW encountered an error ... would you like to investigate?". Frequently (at least once a week) LV won't even start up and I get the "LabVIEW encountered an error and needs to shut down". The only workaround from that - until today - was to restart the computer. Today I could not get LV to startup at all. The only way I was able to get LV to startup was, in a moment of serendipity (or dumb luck) I double-clicked my project icon on my desktop. LV started up. I exited LV and tried to restart and it came up fine.

[ManLongAtNI]

Hello PaulG,

What OS are you on? It appears it isn't isolated to a particular VI of yours but just in LabVIEW in general. However, if this crash occurs specifically to a VI, please post it so we can try duplicating your issue. 

Also, when prompted "LabVIEW encountered an error.." I would recommend selecting the option that allows you to investigate now which should provide directions to send the error log to National Instruments in which it could be further investigated.

[X.]

Not sure it is for the same reason, but I encountered this problem early on after upgrading to SP1 on Windows XP.

It disappeared after I changed a few OS settings such as:

System Properties>>Performance>>Visual Effects>>Let Windows choose what's best for my computer

System Properties>>Performance>>Advanced>>Processor scheduling>>Programs

System Properties>>Performance>>Advanced>>Memory usage>>Programs

HTH,

X.

[PaulG.]

It appears to have something to do with corrupt paths in the labview.ini file. If I rename/delete my labview.ini file it boots up OK. As I get more information I'll post it. Is there a bug reported for this? This is almost certainly a bug.

[PaulG.]

Update: verified that it's a problem in the labview.ini file. But I'm not bothering to file a bug report. It's version 2009 and doubt much will be done about it and I won't waste my time. I'll just use this workaround.

[iannicholson]

Just want to confirm that this workaround helped me out as well. Same symptom: LV2009 crash at startup, repeatable every time. I went through and cleared some of the paths out (especially some that were no longer important), and now LV2009 starts up.

Thanks!