Hi,

Two nights ago everything ran smoothly without problems. I'm running Kstars 3.4.1 (build using rlancaste's AstroPi3 script a week or two ago) on my RP4 4GB unit.

Last night I had experienced something I've never experienced before with Ekos. I started Kstars/Ekos as usual and connected. I tried focusing, but that failed to find a star. I tried the polar alignment routine, but that failed to plate solve due to a blank image. I tried capturing a 30s light frame but that just came out blank as well (and yes, my lens cap was removed ).
I then tried rebooting my RP4 unit, started Kstars and then opened Ekos. I selected my usual profile but just after that Kstars/Ekos crashed (segmentation fault) - it just managed to open the Indi control panel before the crash. When re-opening kstars and starting Ekos I was told that the indiserver was already running. I shut that down and tried again with the same result - seg. fault. I tried some debugging with just the mount and my ccd camera in a profile. That worked and everything started.... BUT when capturing a light frame as a test it was just blank. Also slewed to other places in the sky resulted in blank frames.

I always start kstars from the command line. I got these messages last night:
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I looked at my Indi settings for my camera and noticed that most of the settings had been reset to default, except gain, offset and WB settings. Everything else had been reset.

I disconnected and tried adding my focuser (DeepSkyDad AF3) to my profile again with a seg. fault as my result...

I ran 'gdb --ex run --args kstars' and got this:
[Warning: Spoiler!]

As a last resort I tried running kstars as "root" using 'sudo kstars'. This started a brand new instance of kstars and I had to set up my devices etc. again but that worked. Actually it ran better than ever - I've never had the Polar Alignment routine run as smoothly as this time as the refresh just smoothly refreshed the image every second. When running this normally it's sometimes a bit clunky in refreshing. Also the focusing was running like a dream and very fast. I then tried disconnecting my profile, shut Ekos/Kstars down and opened again. Selecting my profile and.... seg. fault! Tried just the CCD and that worked but everything in the settings was back to default again?!

I gave up! It was one of the clearest nights in a very, very long time and I couldn't capture anything. Very, very frustrating.

What's going on?

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