gaasedelen/lighthouse

Crashes IDA when installed.

DigiAngel opened this issue · 4 comments

DigiAngel commented

Copied the lighthouse and lighthouse_plugin.py from plugins to my plugins dir. Ida 7.4.191112.
Annotation 2020-04-29 195930

gaasedelen commented

Oh boy, that's bad.

Lighthouse doesn't really do much until you actually start trying to use it. So I assume its conflicting with some other installed plugin, or the system...

  • What version of Python are you using?
  • What other plugins do you have installed?
  • What OS? (Windows 10?)
DigiAngel commented

Thanks for the quick response. Python version is 3.8.1 64-bit, Windows version is 1909, no third party plugins installed.

gaasedelen commented

Ah, okay. I had a feeling you might be using Python 3.8. I have not officially tested on Python 3.8 with IDA 7.4 because, well, it has been problematic for both IDA an Binary Ninja.

I am pretty sure you are encountering this: https://www.hex-rays.com/blog/ida-7-4-and-python-3-8/

2. When trying to use PyQt, IDA crashes. Unfortunately, in 3.8 the layout of some internal Python
structures have changed and SIP (the API bindings library used by PyQt) tries to access wrong data.
Notably, this issue also affects Linux and Mac versions of IDAPython. If you are affected by this,
please contact support for an updated build of sip module.

Please contact Hexrays support and get an updated SIP module for your 7.4 installation, and let me know if this resolves your crash with 3.8. Otherwise you can always downgrade to Python 3.7/3.6.

DigiAngel commented

Thanks I'll do the downgrade for now.

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