Under certain circumstances Carla would crash when frequent updates on the QGraphicsScene occurred, especially in combination with scrolling or panning by the user. Backtraces showed either a segfault in QGraphicsItem::parentItem() or around QGraphicsSceneBspTree::climbTree(). While the first trace points towards missing calls to pepareGeometryChange() in combination with custom boundingRect() methods, inserting these did not yield a positive change, though people with this issue also had success in disabling the ItemIndexingMethod of their QGraphicsScene[0][1]. Setting this to NoIndex solves this problem. The original problem is reproducible with an ever-reconnecting client: $ while true; do klick 120 & (sleep 0.1; killall klick); done [0] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-18021?focusedCommentId=367566&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-367566 [1] https://forum.qt.io/topic/71316/qgraphicsscenefinditembsptreevisitor-visit-crashes-due-to-an-obsolete-paintevent-after-qgraphicsscene-removeitempull/1504/head