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Scheduler, Focuser and Guider not functioning with latest build from source

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I compiled the latest build from source tonight. Neither Scheduler, Focuser or Internal Guider are functioning.

Guider fails to select AutoStar and aborts, focuser takes an image, but does not recognize any stars, scheduler hangs on idle after starting and never unparks mount (or acknowledges that mount is unparked).

Nightly crashes and never loads.

Has anyone else seen these problems?

I reverted back to stable, scheduler still does not work, hangs at the same place, but guider and focuser work again.

Jo
3 years 5 months ago #61983

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Hi
Although I can't speak of the focuser, the last source where scheduler, guide, capture and align worked and which I tested was: 7499206e70e30a65dc14d79057a5b0b195f031d8. end of Sept.
Unless you need anything more recent, checkout that comit? A good plan is to install the stable, but call call any subsequent source from the build folder.
Cheers
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I'm running tests now from a kstars built from aca1aa04218e972eeb06c1ca2f994f8a07fc1763.

All is working with simulators, and simulators/actual mount. I did have random crashes last night. Waiting to see if this mornings build is more stable.

This is with guiding, focusing and aligning enabled.

J.

Edit to add: Getting crashes on the RPi4 with the last entries in the log:

[2020-10-22T13:12:23.502 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" sees 1 captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/HA'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" has completed 1/30 of its required captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/HA'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" requires a dither procedure."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" sees 0 captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/OIII'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" has completed 0/30 of its required captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/OIII'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" requires a dither procedure."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.503 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" sees 0 captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/SII'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.504 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" has completed 0/30 of its required captures in output folder '/home/astroberry/Ekos//xDraconis/Light/SII'."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.504 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' 30x600\" requires a dither procedure."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.508 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'xDraconis' estimated to take 15h 03m 20s to complete."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.509 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Guide State "Guiding"
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.581 EDT DEBG ][ default] - WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.590 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 600.000-second HA image..."
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.593 EDT DEBG ][ default] - WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
[2020-10-22T13:12:23.600 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Capture State "Capturing"

I wonder if this is sound related, as my Ubuntu Dev machine is running fine.
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Thanks!
Guiding, focusing and aligning also works fine with the stable build from August 28, I used that last night. sans the scheduler.
What I am baffled by is the scheduler. That hangs and never proceeds to unlock the mount (or, if the mount is unlocked, slew).
I am wondering whether any of the changes since Stellar Solver was implemented may have compromised my stable installation?
The only way to make sure would be to go back to a prior system image, but if there is a simple thing someone could point me to to fix this, I would prefer to go that route.
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With all of the changes going on, stability has definitely got worse on the nightlies. This is a worry because there has been a lot of change without a pause to address instabilities that inevitably get introduced. The more change without a pause, the harder it will be to get that stability back. I was using them with some confidence. With the weather as it is for me now I will be using either the stable kstars or my windows platform, probably the latter because it has been more stable than even the stable kstars build. I can't afford the lost imaging time when I'm getting one or two days a month right now.

What I do find perplexing is that my crashes are happening in an area that should not really be impacted by the bigger stellasolver changes. When it core dumps, it always does so just after starting a new capture. This points to something nasty, insidious and hard to track going on. I need to change the ulimit I guess so I can get a core dump and stick it in GDB. Maybe it will be consistent and easily tracked.

J.
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Thanks folks for all the testings. Nightly release now is not stable, please use v3.4.3 until the nighties are settled a bit. Do not use nightlies for production, just to test the new features and help us track any issues which is greatly appreciated.
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Happy to test! Thanks to you and Rob for all your efforts. Stellar Solver will be great once fully integrated!

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I plan to keep "Twilight Testing" and using marginal nights for testing. I echo Jo's sentiments.

J.
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