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Kstars binaries on MacBook too

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Yes, I found that a file in the data directory called asteroids.dat got changed a few months ago but was still working in 3.5.9. But then a change was made in kstars to support another change in that file by a developer between 3.5.9 and 3.6.0, but asteroids.dat was not updated again. But strangely enough, the older version of the file still works with this new change but the newer version does not. Sorry it is a little confusing. But yesterday I did inform the person of the issue and he is working on a solution.
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Replied by Jean on topic Kstars binaries on MacBook

Hello,

Thanks a lot for your time :-)

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So as a quick fix, could I copy asteroids.dat from the 3.5.9 build and put it into the 3.6.0 directory structure?

Or, how about deleting asteroids.dat altogether?
#dontLookUp

Thanks, Rob, for all your work!
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Ok, two big fixes were just pushed for the find dialog bug and for the startup crash bug with the asteroids.dat file. I just rebuilt the dmg here:

edu.kde.org/kstars/#download

Please try again.
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Please note that now the minimum MacOS version will have to be 10.15 and not 10.13 unfortunately, to go along with KDE/craft's decision on that. Too many packages would have to be rebuilt for 10.13 and some may not work according to their stated reason for changing it. Sorry about that I was hoping to maintain support for 10.13 for awhile longer :-(
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Replied by Jean on topic Kstars binaries on MacBook

Thank you,
...I have an other bug now,
Still impossible to start the app, I got multiples times a repetitive crash.
here are the logs

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Have a good day !

Jean
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Can you please try and run from the Terminal and provide the terminal output? Those MacOS crash reports are usually not very helpful. They don't actually show where or why it crashed clearly. The terminal output at least would tell us more about what it was doing when it crashed.
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The terminal gives no output... unless there is a verbose mode?

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Please try typing this instead:

/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars

I don't think the open command does the same thing.
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Replied by Jean on topic Kstars binaries on MacBook

you'r right!

here is what's happened :



then nothing...
no more report as before...
but nothing happened, and tu terminal is stuck.
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Ok thanks, that told me what I needed to know. In the past when users experienced this freeze when starting dbus, a system restart helped. Maybe try that?
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I did restart several times, deleted the app, re installed it, and it does the same.
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