I am trying out different configurations to try to learn more about my Toupcam driver timeouts/crashes. With only the Telescope Simulator and the Touptek camera running i ran captures on infinite repeat. I came home from work to see a Ubuntu desktop message about the file system being out of space (not surprising!). The scheduler had aborted, but there were none of the usual messages about the camera driver crashing or timing out.

The last line in the log is "0 StarBlocks freed from StarBlockFactory". Surprisingly, a forum search turns up only a few posts in which that line is also included in the log - but the line itself is not discussed.

So - what is a StarBlock? Is that error related to filling the file system, or does it indicate a driver crash?

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