Parallel solvers not terminating

[Jasem Mutlaq]

I tried this in load and slew. While it failed to solve the image, it
terminated correctly.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:39 PM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> Does this happen when you try to solve the image in the StellarSolver
> tester, or just in KStars?  Does it happen when using the internal solvers
> and the local astrometry.net, or just the internal ones?  Does it happen
> on more than one computer or just this one?
>
> Can you look in the temp directory and watch what happens?  The way
> astrometry.net works, to abort the internal or external solvers, a
> “cancel” file must be made, and once it notices that file, it aborts the
> solve.  It is basically an empty file.  What you should see happen is that
> the one solver solves the image, and then Stellarsolver tells the other
> solvers to abort, it does this by creating a cancel file for each one.
> Then when each one shuts down, it will delete its cancel file.
>
> I am concerned from your log here that possibly on your system the cancel
> file does not have the correct name so it is not being made perhaps. But I
> need more information to be sure.
>
> The current naming scheme is that each solver gets a number, and any temp
> files it creates would have this number appended.  The internal solvers
> will have very few of these temp files (just solved and cancel), but the
> external ones have multiple files.  The cancel files should look something
> like this: "internalSextractorSolver_20.cancel”
>
> Can you see if this happens in this case.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> On Nov 17, 2020, at 2:01 PM, Wolfgang Reissenberger <
> sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
> I am running StellarSover on
> commit 2cac32ffb3523dbcb4b3d43afd73e96959b52d8d, but the problem when
> solving NGC6888 remains. It seems like after a successful termination of
> one solver, the others keep running.
>
> There appears a warning around the first successful solve:
>
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.267 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] -
> "Successfully solved with child solver: 1"
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.269 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] -
> "Shutting down other child solvers"
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.270 CET WARN ][                       default] -
> Empty filename passed to function
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.270 CET WARN ][                       default] -
> QFile::remove: Empty or null file name
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.271 CET WARN ][                       default] -
> QFile::remove: Empty or null file name
> [2020-11-17T19:47:27.271 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] -
> "Solver completed after 1.76 seconds.“
>
> The entire log file is here:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UTy8HCBSg2GILYvuzHlrIWKqrTGw7rYL
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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