gdal - GDAL_CALC works but I get a python error at the end of each process that prevents automation

Python 3.4.1, GDAL 1.11.0, OSGEO4W, Windows 7, OSGEO4W Windows Shell

All 64-bit

(ArcGIS is installed as well 10.2 with Python 2.7)

So gdal_translate works fine.

gdal_calc provides perfect outputs but at the end of each process I get the error below. This is a problem as I cannot automate anything due to this pop up error. I hit close and the error goes away, the output file is 100% perfect but then the next gdal_calc line gives me the same error.

This is a sample line of code that gives the error (almost all my gdal_calc commands give the error but not gdal_translate).

gdal_calc.py -A 2000025-2000032.s0481pfv50-sst-16b.hdf.tiff_C.tiff -B C:\temp\QUAL\2000025-2000032.m0481pfv50-qual.hdf.tiffBINARY.tiff  --outfile=A25_32_SSTQUAL4.tiff --calc="A*B"

and this is the error. As I say the process actually works and will continue when I close the error box. After the word DONE appears the error pops up, I close the window and then the next line of code runs, then the error pops up again and so on.

Additional Error message generated


> Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: python.EXE
  Application Version:  0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    5193f3af
  Fault Module Name:    ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18247
  Fault Module Timestamp:   521eaf24
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset: 0000000000053290

  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1: 8c64
  Additional Information 2: 8c64dfac0942d27b36722f7434c64847
  Additional Information 3: e156
  Additional Information 4: e156d5603c95b65c33088aa70929b4be

Answer

As an extremely heavy-handed, last-ditch-effort approach to this, you can disable the crash dialogs in Windows using the DontShowUI value in the Windows Error Reporting registry keys.