Question / Help Can a long OBS load time make plugins crash OBS?

[Slegnor]

Me again,with another probably slideshow related problem.

I use the Logitech LCD plugin for Studio: (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/logitech-lcd-plugin.353/)

Since v19, it has been crashing OBS on launch with the "Whoops" message.

I've flagged it up on the plugin page itself but thought it may be worth putting it here as well

I'm guessing the plugin will crash OBS if the program takes a long time to load (more than 3-4 seconds), which it does if you have a large or multiple slideshows set up, as they are all loaded at program launch.

The developer thinks its because the plugiin is expecting data back from OBS quicker than the slideshows can load and the program fully launch.

Is this likely situation?
Is there anything that can be done with the way plugins are loaded/work within OBS?

Crashlogs are here: https://pastebin.com/JuUXedmM
More details on the plugin page: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/logitech-lcd-plugin.43302/page-3#post-294175

 

[R1CH]

It seems the LCD plugin has numerous concurrency issues. Unfortunately these are issues with the plugin and not with OBS. It uses a hard coded 5 second interval before it starts querying data, and has no error handling if the data it expects is not ready.

 

[Slegnor]

Thanks for the quick reply, not being the developer I don't know if it was the plugin or how OBS handles them.