In the case where the Ekos profile is set to "remote". Drivers include a camera and the Astrometry auxiliary driver.
Running Kstars under gnu debugger, setSolverMode runs when an Ekos profile is loaded.
mode == SOLVER_REMOTE is true but m_RemoteParserDevice is null.
so remoteParser.reset is called which should result in a new value for parser and m_RemoteParserDevice
but it does not. So setAstrometryDevice will fail and further down, parser may not get connected to the CCD camera.
which may be related to the problem that solve-field never receives the camera blob when "capture and solve" is requested in the alignment module.