unity crashes on exit

Questions & Answers
1

This seems to happen at random, and I’ve had it on both of my machines and the machines at my uni, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a problem with the machine (though I could be wrong).

Basically what happens is, when I exit unity, by clicking the x in the top corner or alt-f4, the editor just hangs indefinitely and task manager instantly reports it as not responding.

This has happened on windows xp, 7, 8 and 8.1, with unity 4.3 and every update since.

Anybody know of what could be causing this and/or possible fixes, it would be greatly appreciated.

2

kill the adb.exe process and then close UNITY.

3

As of 4.3.4f1 it still exists as a bug. Need to run taskkill /IM adb.exe /F
Seems to be a questions of the “WRONG” version of ADB.EXE from what I have read, but which is the “RIGHT” one?
This powershell script fixes it:

start-process "D:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe"

$unity = get-process unity

$adb = $NULL

do {

 $adb = get-process adb

 if($adb)
 {

     Stop-Process $adb.id

 }

  Start-Sleep -m 5000

  $unity = get-process Unity

} while( $unity -ne $NULL )

HOW TO RUN IT: Create a shortcut with this in it

powershell.exe -windowstyle hidden -File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\unity.ps1"

Files here: FILES

4

(windows) open notepad, and paste this

(“Name” = your account name)

(Program Files (x86) can also be Program Files, depends on your hardware)

.

@echo off

cd C:\Users\“Name”\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

adb devices

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor

start Unity.exe

Exit

5

I had a very similar problem which was resolved just by adding the location of ABD as a system path.
Tried the above script and realised that ADB wasn’t even running.

Once I added the location of ADB as a system path, I’m guessing Unity could then find and start/stop it itself so the crash on exit was resolved for me. I didn’t need to use the above script after that.

To add ADB to your system path:

  1. Open command prompt as admin
  2. Type: setx PATH “%PATH%;C:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools” (change location of ADB as required)

The above fixed the crash problem for me on Windows 8.1 and I also force DX11 to make Unity more stable on Windows 8.1.

I’m also not sure if Unity installs the Android dev tools because I already had those installed so if you can’t find ADB and have the same problem I would suggest installing the Android dev tools as per the below article then setting the system path to ADB.