Glad to have been of help. As I wrote in my PM to you, let me know when I can help out more.

Ok, I have updated the KStars Mac DMG. There was a typo in the build script on the macdeployqt line. That explains why the qt.conf file was not created and why the plugins were not exported correctly. Please try the dmg again as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Rob

Rob, you nailed it! KStars now starts fine for me. Unfortunately I removed all data directories in an attempt to get it working last night so I have to start over but it is no big deal. The only thing is that I needed to create the ~/Library/Application Support/kstars directory by hand because KStars refused to start without it. Once I did that, however, all is fine. Thanks very much for the hard work you did to fix this!

YES! tried it this morning and all appears good. Learned lots yesterday from both of you. Thanks for the efforts.

I'm trying to install Kstars 2.9.5 and am finding it crashes on my system. I've added an empty directory "kstars" in ~/Library/Application Support/, and after running kstars, it populates it with files. However, I cannot get past that point. I get the Kstars banner, and it crashes as the dialoge says "Loading satellites". Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Gabe

We will need more information. Either a log of KStars as it is loading or the terminal output as it is starting if you run it from the command line.

It worked on my main desktop computer, but now am trying to get it working on my laptop for in the field. It freezes after populating the kstars directory. Here's the output of the terminal session. The output starts after I tell it to copy to the kstars directory, and then it freezes - spinning beach ball. No other output on the terminal window comes up.

~$/Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
org.kde.kstars: Welcome to KStars 2.9.5
org.kde.kstars: Build: 2018-04-25T03:20:24Z
org.kde.kstars: OS: "osx"
org.kde.kstars: API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64"
org.kde.kstars: Arch: "x86_64"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Type: "darwin"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Version: "17.5.0"

Why don’t you try this and see if it prints more

DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars

Sure thing. Here's the output:

I think I have a Mac that does that. I will check into why it is.

AstroGabe,

Can you try running this in a terminal window before running KStars? I am assuming that the data directory has already been copied into place.

launchctl load -w /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/PlugIns/dbus/org.freedesktop.dbus-kstars.plist

This seems to be the issue on the computer that I have which appears to have a similar issue to yours. For some reason dbus didn't start.

Unfortunately, that didn't work. Same result as before. Also, the command you had me try reported back that the service was already loaded.