Crashing on adding articulation in a score with linked staves and corrupted part

• Nov 26, 2020 - 17:31
Reported version
3.5
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

When I attempt to put articulations on bar 17 of my score, MuseScore either freezes for 3 seconds, then closes, not showing the crash report dialog, OR, crashes straight away, showing the crash report dialog.
Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Navigate to bar 17
  2. Select one of the notes in that bar (happens most frequently in E. Guit.)
  3. Attempt to add articulations

MuseScore should either: freeze for 3 seconds, then close, not showing the crash report dialog, OR:
Crash straight away, showing the crash report dialog.
It doesn't happen with any of the other scores I've made.

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Comments

• Nov 26, 2020 - 17:58
Priority ⇒ P1 - High

Confirmed, adding an accent to the first note of the top staff crashes for me in 3.5.2. I'm assuming the problem goes deeper than just articulations, probably something is messed up in the linking.

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• Nov 26, 2020 - 19:10
Title Crashing on adding articulation in a particular score ⇒ Crashing on adding articulation in a score with linked staves and corrupted part

For some reason, the Electric Guitar part is corrupted, all measures in TAB staff are empty, except 3 measures. Not sure exactly how you did it, but it is known that creating parts from an instrument that already contains linked staves (which is the case of the guitar here) can go wrong and lead to this kind of corruption. It is quite easy to reproduce related cases.
So don't get into the habit of creating parts with an instrument containing linked staves. Eventually, do it at the very end of your score input.

Thus, after deleting and recreating this part, your score becomes healthy again, without crashing.
See now: Oddity1.mscz

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