QGIS » QGIS Application

(Paolo asked me to add my bits to the the ticket, but I can't find it so I'm making this one up. If it does exist, apologies for making more work, but can someone merge them?)

Paolo notes:
In some (but not all) Windows machines (both seven and xp) we are getting
crashes in gdaltools (contour, buildvrt, possibly others) [qgis 1.6,
standalone]. I noticed that there are 2 gdal app folders (16 and 17).
Anyone can confirm the problem?
Any idea of what we can test?

I tested this on two windows machines using standalone 1.6. Both indicate that they are using QGIS 1.6.0 - "Code revision exported", and GDAL/OGR 1.5.4.

One machine is XP (32-bit), the other 7 (64-bit).

For both computers I loaded the same georeferenced jpeg (MGA94,zone 51), and used the GDALTools Contouring option. To make the processing of this file faster I set the contouring to 100 (default 10).

On the winXP 32bit machine it completed with out problems.
On the win7 64bit machine, it displayed "The process crashed sometime after starting successfully" after creating the shape files but before asking what CRS to use.

The created shape files from the two machies are however, identical. (I can add them to the report if helpful)