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MacOS Stars 2.9.5 crash

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Installed 2.9.5 in my other machine (same work flow, scrub old program with appclean first).
console log shows same error as on my last post.
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5 years 11 months ago #25507

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Any command line options you'd like me to add to increase the verbosity of the output?
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ah, thank you, thats much better info.
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no, I think I might have found a lead based on what you said via a google search.
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Can you try putting a text file in the folder /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS called qt.conf with the following contents:

[Paths]
Plugins = Plugins
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or possibly in /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/Resources

That is actually where it was before.
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I don't know why but it seems to be missing in the build I made last night. Weird. It has been automatically in kstars every time I built it for a very long time! Now it is suddenly not there.
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I tried both places and tried to start KStars from the command line but got the same error:
$> /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa"
in "".
 
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Abort trap: 6
5 years 11 months ago #25514

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I meant: I first tried /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/Resources and tried to start KStars but got the error. Then i tried /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS and got the same error. I even tried having the file with those contents in both directories at the same time but still I got the error.
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try this:

DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
5 years 11 months ago #25516

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Lots of output which I captured in a txt file by adding a 2>&1 redirect. See the attached file.
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oh! it still might just be qt.conf. the plugins directory is not Plugins, its PlugIns

[Paths]
Plugins = PlugIns
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