I have a relatively large project running with the latest version of Win10, Lazarus, and the various plugins.
Intermittently, the project crashes on startup. The editor and IDE come up, but apparently, when trying to actually draw the project, the Lazarus GUI hangs with the little rotating circle, then shuts down things and complains that there is an "ACCESS VIOLATION". It does so with two warnings in the box, and gives me no option other than to cancel, which shuts down Lazarus.
Nothing really looks bad in the various files, but I suspect that there's a component in there that's messed up somewhere, possibly in the .ifm file. It is a big project, so before I start posting files, what can I do to narrow down the problem?
This is not the program crashing when I compile and run the application, it's the actual GUI (and I think drawing the graphics of the project) that crashes. This happened first after a number of cut and pastes to a page control, I managed (somehow) to get it running by finding a backup that I had made (not Lazarus....), then this happens again.
The lack of information in the error message suggests that this caused something to dig down pretty far.
What now?