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Sorry for the noise if this is unrelated but I had the same issue with QGIS 2.16 (on Windows 7) it would reliably crash on every exit.

The problem went away when I deleted the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\QGIS branch from the registry.

This fixed the issue but was a bit heavy handed as I lost a lot of custom settings. I exported the branch from the registry before I deleted it. Merging it back into the registry caused the problem to reappear. I tried deleting a few of the more complex looking sub branches but didn’t find the registry value causing the crash. Finally I deleted the whole HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\QGIS branch again, then started QGIS and with GIS running I merged the branch back into the registry, I then exited QGIS without getting a crash! I no longer get a crash on exit and I retained almost all of my settings - active plugins, recently used paths, expressions etc. I lost a couple of things that must be saved on exit such as the layout of the layers panel and the browser panel, but all good.

Hi Martin Bain,

I gave your suggestion a try and I'm afraid it made no difference. I exported and deleted the QGIS folder from regedit and then opened QGIS. On closing it straight away it did not crash, which I thought was progress. But when I tried again after opening a project and it just crashed straight away. Thanks for the suggestion.

I can confirm the behaviour. Closing QGIS, even without doing anything else, results in a crash.

In fact, there are two types of crash:
1) "minidump written"
2) QGIS turns pale and a message saying "qgis-bin.exe a cessé de fonctionner; windows recherche une solution" appears. While the message is up, an xml file appears in my temp folder (where the minidumps are; is is called e.g. WERB96C.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml), but when the message is closed the xml disappears.

The two behaviour seem to occur more or less randomly.

I disabled all the plugins (even core), one by one : same result, even on a blank QGIS.

On the other hand deleting the .qgis2 folder cures the problems (it also deletes interesting stuff on the other hand, alas).

I was in the process of investigating what part of .qgis2 is the culprit, when I noticed that 2.18.4 was ready.
Alas -- the same symptoms are still present !

So, from this point onwards, the discussion is based on 2.18.4

I then went into .qgis2 and removed one after the other evry individual folder, and sub-folder. In the end,it turned out that the problemm was located in .qgis2/python/plugins/GarminCustomMap : removing this folder cured the problem.

Interestingly, it is not enough to desactivate it (from "manage and install plugin"), the problem is solved by desintalling (actually deleting) the plugin.

Plugin team is being informed.

PS- already reported in the plugin page: #11901

I then went into .qgis2 and removed one after the other evry individual folder, and sub-folder. In the end,it turned out that the problemm was located in .qgis2/python/plugins/GarminCustomMap : removing this folder cured the problem.

it is years now that that plugin causes the crash on exit even if disabled.

So I've managed to fix this issue. Turns out it was a plugin issue, specifically "MetaSearch Catalogue Client" appeared to be corrupt.

What I actually did was uninstall all plugins that I could, which first identified Meta.. as the one corrupt. I then tried reinstalling, but then that appeared to have issues so I uninstalled and re installed the plugin and everything works fine. I have not reinstalled the other plugins I removed so it could be one of those may reintroduce the issue. But at the moment everything is working fine. Thanks for all the suggestions and help on this matter

I used to have same problem until deinstallation of "Semi-automation classaification" plugin. It crashed QGIS on closing not only but also on pressing checkbox in Plugins window. Deleted plugin manually through Windows Explorer