Docking via claw causes all solar panels to break followed by game crash.

[Pjj]

I'm trying to dock a rover to a stationary planetary base via claws. I tested the design on Kerbin before flying them out to Duna, worked perfectly fine there. When driving the rover into the claw, all the solar panels on both vessels break, the interface disappears, and the game slowly chugs to a halt. The flight log shows no collision events or anything.

I've tried docking with the panels stowed, they don't break but otherwise the result is the same (I think they're a side effect of whatever is causing the problem.

[sal_vager]

Hi Pjj, can you please see the support stickies and upload your savegame and your logs to dropbox

[steve_v]

When driving the rover into the claw

Don't. Unless the claw bugs have been fixed, when 'docking' one must always control the vessel fitted with the claw, not the other way around.

But yeah, what sal said

[Pjj]

Don't. Unless the claw bugs have been fixed, when 'docking' one must always control the vessel fitted with the claw, not the other way around.

But yeah, what sal said

I tried building up momentum with the rover then switching to the claw and waiting for it to roll, with a similar result. I'll try again and then see about uploading a save.

[Pjj]

Yay, 1.05 fixed all my claw issues! My game has basically been on hold since June because of it.

Just wanted to say thanks!

[sal_vager]

Oh thank the Kraken, I was hoping this would get fixed!

[Claw]

Fantastic! This was quite a difficult but to track down.

[The Flame Cat]

Danny had this glitch while crushing Kerbals. Different variation though, Destroyed the planet.

[sal_vager]

Danny has a pre-release copy which can still have bugs