Kstars 3.6.0 MacOS find Object crash

[Jasem Mutlaq]

I received one report for Find Dialog crash as well on Raspberry Pi, so
perhaps it's not unique to MacOS?

However, I couldn't reproduce on Raspberry PI, Widows, or any x86-64
machine.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 8:52 AM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ok I did some more testing.
>
> This commit is when the Find Dialog broke when running KStars on MacOS by
> double clicking the app:
>
>
> https://github.com/KDE/kstars/commit/5a2ba9f8e8b275f44b7593a50ca66f09cb2f985d#diff-c2a2ab763404c18a2daee3feb8b31f2ec278034e7cc720870c4e5158081e0ee9
>
> I think that is the one you were hoping was not the one.  I still don’t
> know why it broke it though.  Every time I run it from terminal or qt
> creator there is no problem.  It is just when running it by double clicking
> that is the problem.
>
> Note that I did test playing with the environment variables in qt creator
> and that seemed to have no effect.  And it also didn’t seem to matter
> whether kstars was packaged up or not, so it doesn’t seem to be a packaging
> issue.
>
> On Aug 16, 2022, at 2:11 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I am to blame for this, the parallelism introduced in the asynchronous
> find dialog is my suspect, rather than the comet regex (which was actually
> Hy and not me). The regex seems unlikely to cause the erratic behavior
> Robert is observing where it runs fine under a debugger.
>
> But if it works fine when running KStars from a command line, that
> probably exonerates me and Hy, and is likely an environment issue like
> Robert points out!
>
> Regards
> Akarsh
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 07:28 Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I just got back from my two week trip to the Southwest.  Yesterday I
>> resolved the issue with building a dmg with my script, so now I can build
>> DMGs that will work with older Macs and have all the features we want in
>> the dmg.
>>
>> Next we can look into this Find Dialog bug.  I did some experiments today
>> and I found that if I run kstars from the command line or in a debugger,
>> the find dialog works fine, but when running the app by double clicking it
>> crashes when you first access the find dialog.  This seems to me to
>> indicate an environment issue, like maybe an issue with environment
>> variables or maybe a link to a library that isn’t properly in the app.  I
>> will check further.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2022, at 6:09 AM, John Evans <john.e.evans.email at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I have the same problem with 3.6.0. Crashes everytime the find object
>> dialog is invoked (button, keyboard, etc.)
>>
>> Works great when I run it in debug in Qt though.
>>
>> Workaround is to use the skymap and click on the object you want. In
>> the scheduler enter some text in the object field (doesn't matter what) and
>> hit the + to use sky coordinates from the map.
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 10:05, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 01:27 Peter Amerl <pvamerl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> Has anyone else experienced an immediate crash when searching for
>>>> objects on a Mac using the Apple-f key combination?
>>>> I can confirm that it has worked in the past without a crash. Neither
>>>> Ctrl-f, nor selecting it from the menu appears to work for me at this time.
>>>> The Crash trace is appended in the zip if anyone wants to have a look.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Peter
>>>
>>> When you say it worked in the past, could you provide the exact version
>>> / git commit, and also your current version / git  commit that has the bug?
>>> I made several changes to the Find Dialog in the most recent version,
>>> notably performing asynchronous database queries through another thread. It
>>> never crashed on my Linux system. Also curious if someone else can
>>> reproduce it on MacOS or if it is unique to your system.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Akarsh
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
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