Open Workbench is crashing is a few scenarios including:
There was a defect that was fixed (DE49803) in 15.7 patch 1, but in 15.7 patch 1, there are still some crashing issues as noted above.
Expected Results: Save is successful and OWB remains open
Actual Results: OWB crashes with error npWBench.exe has stopped working. (Clicking the Close Program message in the error popup up window closes OWB)
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Expected Results: Task is created successfully
Actual Results: OWB crashes with error npWBench.exe has stopped working.
(Clicking the Close Program message in the error popup up window closes OWB)
This issue is caused by: DE52066
Release : 15.7, 15.7 patch 1
Component : OPEN WORKBENCH (OWB)
Fixed in Clarity 15.8, Clarity 15.7.1.2 (15.7.1 patch 2), and Clarity 15.6.1.4 (15.6.1 patch 4)
Workaround:
To avoid the issue when closing projects:
For a similar issue fixed in see: OWB Keeps Crashing when inserting tasks after Upgrade fixed in 15.7.1 and also patched in 15.7.0.1 (15.7 patch 1) and 15.6.1.3 (15.6.1 patch 3)