Try this:

It has the same error:

E: Unable to locate package ekosdebugger

It's available on StellarMate. For regular raspbian, you can compile from here: github.com/knro/ekosdebugger

Thanks Jasem. I got it and will post in this thread as soon as I'm able to emulate the error (when skies clear after Sally)

Hi!

I just had a crash that seems similar to this one, and I WAS running through Ekos Debugger. But where then is the right log? I have attached the Kstars log from ~/.local/share/kstars/logs - is this the right one?

Magnus

IIRC from using the Ekos Debugger a few weeks ago, there is a button on the top right of the debugger window that allows you to specify where you want to save the log file that the debugger creates.

Was this software released without being tested?

I'm on the verge of going back to SGP.

Hi!

well, all software have issues, for a great variety of reasons. Do you have any particular that would cause you to abandon this project?

My crashes were identified and solved by Jasem right now. A level of testing and fixing that beats anything I ever experienced in commercial software...

So as for the thread topic: at least one cause for crashes seems to be solved, as we speak.

Magnus

Hi,

I have the same experience - Kstars suddenly crashes/disappears.
Last time it happened it was right after a meridian flip, in iteration #2 of the solver (please see attached log).
It seems it happened right after the image taken by the solver was downloaded.

I also often get this behaviour after I have captured my flat frames and start taking the first light frame.
To reduce the risk of this to happen, I now have a routine to always restart the Stellarmate between the flats and the lights.
Not very convenient, but I rather do this than having a crash during the lights session...
So it seems to have something to do with the image capture in my case.

Any ideas/advice on what to do?

Cheers, Åke

Hi!

I have no clue to what happened there, but as I understand it, you did not run Kstars from the Ekos Debugger?

I think that is a very good idea to get data on the crashes. Logging data is in the Debugger window, and you choose a directory to save it in as well (do that before you start Kstars with it).

Magnus

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for responding so quickly.
Not sure what you mean by "run Kstars from the Ekos Debugger".
I did enable debug logging when starting Ekos, but that is after I started Kstars. I don't know how to start Ekos in any other way, please advice me. Currently, I start Ekos from the Kstars menu: "Toggle Ekos".

Also, not sure if I should enable all logging (since it says "Only enable the necessary logs to help in diagnosing specific problems").
I think what I enabled was:
- Ekos: INDI,Capture,Alignment & Mount
- Drivers: Mount & CCD

// Åke

ekosdebugger is tool that you use to launch KStars so that in case it crashes, it can generate useful logs for developers. You can install it on Linux: