[Kstars-devel] Kstars and comets.dat issue // was Re: Kstars-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 11

[Peter Baitz]

Jason,

Sorry, I guess to answer my own question, here's what
I found about the ephemeris data download earlier
today to my own account and this afternoon to the root
account:

# cd /home/reguser/.kde/share/apps/kstars
# ls -ld comets.dat
-rw-rw-r--  1 reguser reguser 291391 Jan 11 10:59
comets.dat 

# cd /root/.kde/share/apps/kstars
# ls -l comets.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 284311 Jan 11 14:44 comets.dat

So the comets.dat download this morning was different
than this afternoon (as would be expected since you
fixed it), and kstars now sees McNaught 2006 P1 with
the Find Object function, and kstars running as root. 

However, Kstars still has a problem coming up on
screen now since this morning's download using my
regular account - here's what I get (and I've copied
the corrected comets.dat from root to my user
account): 

$ kstars
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ExtDate: Invalid date -146--6--28
ExtDate: Invalid date -043--5--25
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
ExtDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -12:00:00.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -12:00:00.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -12:00:00.000
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -12:00:00.000


Kstars was running onscreen just fine this morning
before I downloaded the new data.

Now all this said, I have to try the same thing at
home where I have Kstars latest version.  Right now I
only have 1.1 installed, so maybe has something to do
with new data and 1.1. 


Peter


--- Peter Baitz <baitzph at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> 
> Sorry to keep you waiting. I'll respond to both your
> emails here because it seems pertinent.
> 
> Per your original email, after I had downloaded the
> updated ephemeris today with Get Hot New Stuff, I
> was
> using the Find Object feature and it was not showing
> up.  But, when I read your first email, I closed
> down
> Kstars and started it up again but
> mysteriously/suddenly ran into an issue running it
> as
> my normal user id, so ran Kstars it as root,
> wherebye
> I wound up having to download all that stuff again,
> and it is now working.  But Kstars won't show up on
> screen for my normal account - only the banner
> screen
> shows momentarily, and in memory I see it. 
> 
> So to also answer your second email, I have
> apparently
> downloaded your corrected version since it is now
> working for root user.   I am wondering if there are
> two copies of the downloaded data (comets.dat) for
> each user which could be hosing up Kstars for my
> regular user?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> --- Jason Harris <kstars at 30doradus.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > There was a problem with the column format of the
> > files.  Can you please 
> > try installing from Get New Stuff again?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
> > Peter Baitz wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > A comment and a question....
> > > 
> > > I noted that Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is *not*
> > in
> > > the databases for the Ephemerides 2007.01
> Release
> > 1
> > > Thurs Jan 11, 2007  update I just downloaded.  
> > This
> > > is the bright comet we're seeing in the evening
> > after
> > > sunset (see http://spaceweather.com/ ) but not
> in
> > > Kstars (which would be great for tracking my
> > NexStar
> > > it it had it). The thing is this comet will not
> be
> > > visible that much longer in the norther skies,
> so
> > it
> > > would be great if it was in Kstars?
> > > 
> > > Now for the question - does Kstars have a SHOW
> > OBJECTS
> > > feature, such as if I direct Kstars to an area
> of
> > sky,
> > > then ask Kstars to show me all the comets in
> that
> > > area? 
> > > If not, this would be a helpful feature. 
> > > 
> > > Peter
>



 
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