Ok notice how in the second screenshot indiserver is still running after the kstars crash? That is what I expected and I thought that was the cause of your crash when restarting kstars and launching indi. I thought indiserver was still running and when you started it again, there was a bug of some sort there in terms of starting indi when it was already running. There are supposed to be two options, quit the already running one, or don't start it again, connect to the running one. But no, I don't see indiserver in the first screenshot. Very strange. If KStars is all done and indi is all done and everything is closed, then how can there be any difference from launching it the first time? In your crash log it said cfitsio was somehow related, but that doesn't explain this to me yet. Let me get some other opinions.