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New Tool: Ekos Debugger

New Tool: Ekos Debugger was created by Jasem Mutlaq

Over the last few days we've been working on a new tool: Ekos Debugger.

This tool would make submission of logs more convenient for end users. It's available in the Nightly PPA night:

sudo apt-get -y install ekos-debugger

It is still under development. Some features requires latest nightly KStars as well since it controls what kind of logs are turned on/off via DBus and this was just added a few hours ago to Ekos.

It is used to diagnose both KStars and INDI, each separately in a dedicated tab. If a user experienced a crash in Ekos, then they would launch the Ekos Debugger and then run KStars from there. If KStars crash again, it will be caught and the user can simple click save to get the zip file which they can upload to the forum for example. It's hosted in Github: github.com/knro/ekosdebugger
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Replied by Joaquin on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

Is it only for crashes or can also be used to debug malfunctions ?
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Replied by Peter Sütterlin on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

Can it debug remote INDI? I'm running EKOS on the laptop, but INDI on the mount computer...
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

No, since it needs to launch INDI. You'd run it on the mount computer then.
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Replied by Ken Self on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

I'm having issues with KStars/EKOS crashing on Windows 10. Is there a way to debug the programs on W10?
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

Not yet, but I'd imagine this tool would improve over time to support all OSes.
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Replied by Andrew Burwell on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

Is there any reason you wouldn't want to run this all the time?
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger


Excellent question. Yes there is a good reason: Performance.

Running via debugger (gdb) is always slower.
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Replied by jiberjaber on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger


Is there a nightly that works with Astroberry?
I tried to build from git but it I got an error, am I missing a dependency (I haven't built Kstars I just use the bleeding edge version from the repo)
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Replied by Jim on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

I just set up a Copr for Fedora for ekosdebugger. You can find it here: copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/xsnrg/ekosdebugger/

I will add the directions to the Fedora download page as well.

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Replied by Dean on topic New Tool: Ekos Debugger

FWIW, while tinkering around with my Pi 3B+ I imaged raspbian OS onto a USB SSD drive, compiled
indi, kstars, phd2, phdlogger and ekosdebugger. Jasem, can you add an ekosdebugger icon and .desktop file to
your github repo ? Great work as usual BTW!

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