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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is anyone experiencing this able to compile 5.1 branch from source (so, the
code that will eventually become 5.1.2) and check if this issue is already
fixed by Seth's commit?

-Jon

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 9:10 AM Frank Severinsen <
frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Thomas
>
> I have experienced this as well
> Isn't it this issue?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1824764
>
> Kindest regards
> Frank Severinsen
>
>
> 21. apr. 2019 11.08 skrev Thomas Pointhuber <thomas.pointhuber@xxxxxx>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I made a KiCad beginner workshop yesterday (with about 45 people), and at
> least two of the participants appared to run into serious issues regarding
> netlist handling. One of my colleguages as well (I hope he creates an
> bug-report soon).
>
> The Issue appeared on KiCad 5.1.1, but it could be a regression already
> present in 5.1. Basically, it causes some nets to be not connected, which
> results in missing ratsnets in pcbnew as well as ERC errors (not-connected
> pads). Visually, all pins are shown as correctly connected in eeschema. In
> pcbnew those pads are not connected at all (so no ratsnets bug).
>
> Dunno if this fix works for all people, but closing eeschema and opening
> it again causes a corrupted file warning (I think warning about an invalid
> netlist), which causes KiCad to create the netlist again and building a
> valid one which resolves the issue.
>
> As summary: it seems there is a serious bug in KiCad 5.1.x which causes
> netlist errors and file corruptions.
>
> I told everyone which had this problem to create a bug-report on launchpad
> to give some additional informations. If the issue is not found until
> KiCon, I would suggest to have one of the main-developers attend the
> beginner workshop to look for anyone having this issue and reproduce it.
>
> Regards, Thomas
>
>
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