With all of the changes going on, stability has definitely got worse on the nightlies. This is a worry because there has been a lot of change without a pause to address instabilities that inevitably get introduced. The more change without a pause, the harder it will be to get that stability back. I was using them with some confidence. With the weather as it is for me now I will be using either the stable kstars or my windows platform, probably the latter because it has been more stable than even the stable kstars build. I can't afford the lost imaging time when I'm getting one or two days a month right now.

What I do find perplexing is that my crashes are happening in an area that should not really be impacted by the bigger stellasolver changes. When it core dumps, it always does so just after starting a new capture. This points to something nasty, insidious and hard to track going on. I need to change the ulimit I guess so I can get a core dump and stick it in GDB. Maybe it will be consistent and easily tracked.

J.

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