Not sure if anyone else experiences this, but my designer always dies when I unplug my USB C that goes to my dock.
I am using Windows 11 on a Lenovo ThinkPad. I didn't used to have any issues, but in the last few weeks I've noticed as I move from my desk to a meeting when I open my laptop the designer is simply gone. I don't notice any other time.
Issue number one is probably the fact I am using Windows I'm sure.
Designer logs are a little trickier; look in ~/.ignition/clientlauncher-data/designerlauncher.log. There will be a line starting with "Starting Java with the following parameters:". Copy the long command the comes after that, paste it into a new terminal, run it to launch a new Designer. All the logs will be dumped into the terminal as the Designer runs.
Then perform the action that kills the designer; if there's some exception being thrown it should be captured and logged in your running terminal.
Oh, it's in a special category you can't see, but I quoted the relevant portion; basically it's just an easy way to get the right command line invocation to use to launch a designer, which you can then invoke manually to capture stdout/stderr of the process.
I have a similar experience when my RDP disconnects (I launch designer in a virtual machine which is displayed on the host as RDP). If the RDP stops responding, or if I close it, even though the virtual machine continues to run, the designer closes.
Jokes aside, if anyone able to reliably reproduce this could do the thing I mentioned in the second post, it would help actually figure out what's going wrong
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ffe5c84bbc6, pid=23144, tid=27568
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# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment Zulu17.54+22-SA (17.0.13+11) (build 17.0.13+11-LTS)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu17.54+22-SA (17.0.13+11-LTS, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc, windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [awt.dll+0xdbbc6]
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# [thread 41188 also had an error]
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# C:\Users\BenFurlani\hs_err_pid23144.log
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