Symptom

When trying to start PowerBuilder, it is crashing immediately.   PowerBuilder is trying to reopen the last workspace on startup.

Environment

PowerBuilder

Reproducing the Issue

Try to open a corrupt workspace in PowerBuilder, and PowerBuilder will shut down immediately.

Cause

Corruption of an object within the last workspace: when starting PowerBuilder, it tries to load the last workspace causing the crash.

Resolution

To start PowerBuilder without it loading the last workspace, change the ReopenWorkspace=1 property to ReopenWorkspace=0 in the pb.ini under the [PB] section.

To avoid this issue, you can also set this same property in the PowerBuilder IDE.  Go to Tools-->System Options-->Workspaces and uncheck the 'Reopen Workspace on startup'.