Problem with Ekos/kStars 3.2.2 and Astrometry

[Hans]

Hi Stanley,

I don't have a Mac, so cannot realy help. But have you tried the forums at https://indilib.org/forum/ ?
I'm sure it'll get picked up and fixed.

-- Hans

Stanley Fertig wrote on 20190525:

> Hi all,
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> I’m a kStars/Ekos user—gave up Maxim DL for it a year ago— with my 12” LX200, SBIG STF8300M, Moonlite focuser, etc.
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> I was very happy with version 3.0.0, which I ran on my Macbook Air to run the above equipment.  I downloaded all the Astrometry.net <http://astrometry.net/> index files because my scope is located in a mountain location with no internet access.  Plate solving was always slow the first run, then worked fine for any session.
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> Last week I updated to version 3.2.2.  Everything works fine except:  as soon as I click on “Capture & Solve” the plate solving crashes.  Doesn’t just fail to solve, it crashes within one second of taking an image, and says that it “crashed.”
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> I checked, the index files haven’t moved, I haven’t changed anything else except perhaps updated OS X to the latest production version (10.14.5).
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> Last night I tried running version 3.0.0 again—was able to restore a copy from a backup—and the plate solving did not crash.  (But because I was in NYC, there weren’t enough visible stars for it to solve!!).
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> Has anyone else had this problem?  Is this an issue you’re aware of?  Is there something I can do to get plate solving to work in 3.2.2?  
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> Many thanks,
> stan in Brooklyn
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> PS—I just would like to say, I LOVE Ekos.  It’s nice to have a platform-independent solution which continues to improve.
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