OK, so with yesterday's code base I'm still crashing kstars on the Oroid N2 Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS aarch64 arm64

Here are the ekosdebugger kstars and indl logs, in case someone can make sense of them

Thanks!

p.s. I can workaround this crash if I use Phd2 for guiding and don't load the ZWO driver in kstars.

No updates here?

I have now downgraded only libasi, i.e., to the previous BLOBs, version 1.22 (seems 1.23 had been skipped?).

With that (i.e., without recompiling anything else) the error on the Pi is gone, I can connect to the camera, take images etc.

No luck here as well, I am thus running a prior (working) release on my ARM based ODroid and hoping for a solution.

Looking at the backtrace, it only lists libASICamera2.so and libc.so.6.
So I wonder what glibc you use (also @Jasem, as it worked there). Mine is 2.35

Hi everyone

1.24 seems to obsolete the older asi cameras such as the first issue 120mm. We have had success however using the same for guiding, but only 8 bit mode. Change to 8 bit (the default is 16bit) in indi before guiding and all is well.

I believe there is mention of an option to retain an older sdk for cases such as those described in this thread. That would be a good idea.
Cheers and clear skies,
Steve

Steve:

My cameras being ASI533MC and ASI290MM, I should not be affected by the obsoleted cameras in 1.24. Also, re-building the latest indi-3rdpartylibs and indi-3rdparty commits with the 1.22 SDK instead of the 1.24 one (indi-3rdparty/libasi/armv8/libASICamera2.bin) does not cause problem with the cameras.

Peter:

On my ODroid Ubuntu 20.04, libc.so is version 2.31, not 2.35 like on your openSuse system. On the other hand, my I5 Ubuntu 20.04 system also has the 2.31 version of libc.so and there is no problem with the ASI camera. It's likely something with, at least, the armv8 version of the libASICamera2.bin file.

I have "first issue" ASI120 and it works fine. Where is the obsoleted cameras list?

For us, it works only in 8 bit mode.

The así site suggests that older cameras 'may not work very well'.

This is however nothing new, the 120 had alsways been marked 'problematic'. Where did you read that 1.24 would drop support for older cams? The release notes don't mention anything....

@Giles: Yes, the glibc thing was a brain fart, sorry. As I wrote myself, it's running fine of my x86_64, and that is of course also at 2.35.... I agree it must be something with the libASICamera2 on aarch64 at least.
The question is what is different on systems where it crashes compared to those where it runs.

We didn't read about the 120 support being dropped anywhere. We found out ourselves.
Cheers and clear skies

I am seeing similar restarts with the ToupCam IMX571 as well.

Everything starts fine, but when you try and take an image, it disconnects, then reconnects.

Logs don't show much, I even turned on INDI logging, but it just states the camera disconnected and then reconnected.

Gonna capture a tail log and see if I can see anything.

If I use the same setup and swap to a QHY camera, no issues at all.

ZWO has released version 1.25 of the camera SDK which might improve things (or might not, the change log doesn't mention anything to this). So if someone with the issue could either download the SDK directly from ZWO (astronomy-imaging-camera.com/software-drivers then click developers and download the SDK for Linux & Mac, should be called ASI_linux_mac_SDK_V1.25.tar.bz2) and replace the libASICamera2.so in your system or install libasi from the pull request from github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty/pull/615 that would be much appreciated as I haven't been able to reproduce the issue myself.