×

INDI Library v2.0.6 is Released (02 Feb 2024)

Bi-monthly release with minor bug fixes and improvements

KStars crashes repeatedly - FITS-viewer associated?

  • Posts: 33
  • Thank you received: 0
What camera did you use when you experienced the crash?
If your cam has pixels more than 24M, your problem may be the same as that I encoutered:

www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/3891-kstars-o...-large-fit-file.html

To avoid the crash, I set the resolution setting in the capture module of Ekos smaller, while setting the image-saving option in the INDI control panel as SD card. If you use a DSLR, this work-around would avoid the crash.

Koichi
5 years 5 months ago #30275

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 41
  • Thank you received: 5
@koichi

I'm using the ASI 1600 MMC pro - so it's 16Mpix

But nevertheless I'm suspecting the FITS-file/viewer to be the culprit.

CU & CS Chris
5 years 5 months ago #30279

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 41
  • Thank you received: 5
Just to get you updated, it's KStars 2.9.8.

The sky didn't allow me field experiments, but would you rather want me to test the 2.9.8 with verbose logfiles, or should I try a nightly release to see what happens???

Cheers Chris
5 years 5 months ago #30336

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Chris, I'd suggest nightly since we are getting close to this release.
5 years 5 months ago #30339

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 41
  • Thank you received: 5
Just another update...

The sky has been awkward recently, so I wasn't able to test it in the last two weeks.
INDI/KStars/Ekos is up to date with the nightly build so that I'm ready to go when the sky clears up.

I'll keep You informed

Cheers and CS

Chris
5 years 4 months ago #30961

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 311
  • Thank you received: 42
I have had issues with KStars terminating or becoming unresponsive while collecting multiple images. "Use FITS viewer" is checked and it seemed to possibly be somehow related. With ongoing bad weather have not progressed collecting logs to submit a query. I don't know if it is a real issue but have the following after seeing the advise to run KStars in a terminal session.
Oct 18.
kstars-bleeding.x86_64 3.0.0-12.2 @home_lupinix-indi_fedora-bleeding
Found one coordinate representation.
Found one coordinate representation.
pa_write() failed while trying to wake up the mainloop: Bad file descriptor
pa_write() failed while trying to wake up the mainloop: Bad file descriptor
pa_write() failed while trying to wake up the mainloop: Bad file descriptor
KCrash: Application 'kstars' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi directly
Invalid read from eventfd: Bad file descriptor
Code should not be reached at pulsecore/fdsem.c:157, function flush(). Aborting.
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
[tg@chai ~]$ org.kde.drkonqi: The specified process does not exist.
5 years 4 months ago #30989

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Can you reproduce this? If yes, how exactly?

Please updated your signature with your system info + equipment as well.
Last edit: 5 years 4 months ago by Jasem Mutlaq.
5 years 4 months ago #31028

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 8
  • Thank you received: 1
I’ve had the exact same issue the last couple of times I tried using Stellarmate /Kstars. It occurred two weekends in a row. Stellarmate as server with Kstars/Ekos running on my Windows 10 Surface. Kstars would crash on my surface some random number of captures into a sequence. I had to stay up all night both times continually resetting the sequence. I was running the latest nightly builds on both Stellarmate and my Win 10 Surface. I too feel like the crashing is rested to the FITS viewer. I’ve since swapped back to my M3 compute stick with SGP until Kstars proves to be more stable. Hope the new release is more or less bug free as I love Kstars! I may swap back to Stellarmate my next night out and test with the newest nightly build since it has been a couple of weeks.
5 years 4 months ago #31077

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

There is no pattern at all to this crash? no crash log?
5 years 4 months ago #31091

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 311
  • Thank you received: 42
I was trying to do other things and did not take the time to look into why it was happening. Probably not helpful but
I'll attach a log from 3 different nights, I have another 4 that all appear to end in a similar way. I think this indicates a crash or more frequently progress stops and the UI is unresponsive, so they could be a forced kill of KStars.
5 years 4 months ago #31102
Attachments:

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 239
  • Thank you received: 38
Is this the Windows version? My Ubuntu KStars works great, but the Windows 10 build crashes with FITS viewer.
4 years 9 months ago #40122

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • Posts: 2
  • Thank you received: 0
Hi,

Has anyone managed to find a fix for this issue? Same as everyone else I am trying to run Kstars on a Surface Pro running Windows 10. Kstars crashes every time an exposure is taken with no error being reported. I have tried using low resources mode and deselecting "use FITS Viewer"
4 years 8 months ago #40794

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Time to create page: 1.089 seconds