Tips for debugging crash on GUI startup

[barnabas79]

So I'm currently investigating a crash which always happens immediately on GUI startup.  It causes a script editor window to briefly open, with what looks like might be relevant information (?), but the window then closes before I can read it.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for tacking this problem - either:

- An easy way to turn on maya logging (preferrably via an environment var - the MAYA_APP_DIR is actually in a temp dir in this case, because the crash happens during a unittest)
- A way to make the script editor window stay open

...or anything else that you think might help.  Thanks!

[stuzzz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You might set the environment variable to you Maya.env

MAYA_DEBUG_ENABLE_CRASH_REPORTING = 1

You will usually found the

specify a log file in a path  like: C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Temp\MayaCrashLog<token>.log

[stuzzz]

I was editing my text when when the post got validated. It's barely english, sorry for that!