The Crash JASEM encountered was reproduced on my pc for the first time. After the release of 2.0.0INDI and 3.6.3Kstars, I was curious if the stable version solved the connection of QHYcam and Toupcam, so yesterday I helped a friend of our Observatory to install Xubuntu 22.04 and the latest program from PPA as a clean install.

First I tested the connection to QHY5LIIM on my friend's computer, although still slower than ZWO, but the connection is much faster than in the past, and successfully connected and exposed.

After that I tested connecting the ToupCam 2600. It seems slow to establish a connection on my friend's computer, as this camera was instantly connected in the version I had built earlier.

But at least both cameras were able to connect to my friend's computer at the same time and work properly, I was then convinced that the stable version of PPA apt-install was no longer has this problem.

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Today I used the script github.com/lancoyan/buildKstarsNightlyFromGit on my computer, a computer that has compiled INDI 2.0.0 many times over, probably with some kind of residue.

In all the combinations of versions I build, including 3.6.2/3.6.3+2.0.0, the chart was instantly connected and worked fine, but QHY was completely unrecognized and unconnected (probably an isolated case of my computer).

So I wanted to try the PPA version to see if it would solve all the problems.

After installing the PPA version, perhaps with my previous compilation residue, the Toupcam begins to crash all the time.

I then uninstalled PPA, rebooted, rebuild my version, and installed the gdb package

sudo apt install gdb
sudo apt-get install indi-dbg
gdb --ex run --eval-command="set follow-fork-mode child" --args indiserver -v indi_toupcam_ccd

Surprisingly, before rebooting or installing GDB, even my build version was crashing, but after that it was fine, no more crashing, and the graph could run stably. QHY still won't connect though, and I have purchased ASI220 to replace QHY.

Toupcam Engineers Karas said they would try the PPA version on Monday to see if the crashes could be reproduced.

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