Following resintalling Stellarmate due to the beta borking the installation I spent the evening under clear skys trying to set things up again. Initially I could not polar align because of warnings that the it would cause the median to be crossed, despite kstars showing the mount pointing at the NCP. This was eventually solved by clearing mount model, switching off, finding it no longer pointed to the NCP  and then making the mount slew to this position (yep, the dec axis went a full 360 degrees despite not being that far off from the pole), then writing this as the new park position. This seems to be a consistent bug that I have reported previously as have others... 

The next problem became apparent and made me give up in frustration. I tried to polar align again using the align module as I have before. It initally gave an error of not enough stars check field of view index files etc. I then turned on logging and it would not plate solve. Following turning on logging I then slewed to cassieopea and trried to plate solve with polar scope set up initally, and then dslr on main scope. Same thing - getting a message that it has failed. I have checked focal length, sensor settings etc and all correct. I have astap and the the H17 database installed as well as internal solver databases etc. Can anybody help? I have attached logs. 
 

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