[Kstars-devel] KStars fails to start after getting ephemerides-2007.01

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

Shortly after posting that ephemeris, I realized that the file format was 
messed up.  It looks like you grabbed the bad version before I corrected it.

Please remove the "ephemerides" line from your kstarsrc, and download the 
ephemeris again.

Sorry about that, and please let us know if this doesn't fix the issue.

Jason

On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:35, Bart Coppens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just updated my ephemerids to the ephemerides-2007.01 that just got
> committed (r622334). Unfortunately, KStars (an old KDE 3.5 one) won't start
> anymore: it hangs somewhere. This happens after a LOT of spewing of debug
> output like
> ExtDate: Invalid date 0000-00-00
>
> If I run a relatively less old KDE3.5 KStars checkout with debug symbols in
> gdb, and interrupt at the seeming hang to backtrace, it claims to be at
>
> #0  0x000000000044b758 in dms::reduce (this=0x7fffffd0adf0)
> at /mnt/kde-devel/3.5/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/dms.cpp:276
> #1  0x000000000048dfdb in KSAsteroid::findGeocentricPosition
> (this=0x3f45670, num=0x7fffffd0b060, Earth=0x3cc8fd0)
> at /mnt/kde-devel/3.5/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/ksasteroid.cpp:43
> etc.
> But looking at that piece of code suggests nothing wrong; maybe something
> is wrong with the debug info there. If I backtrace in my regular checkout,
> it gives a lot of nonsensical function addresses at the top of the stack,
> intermingled with
> #9  0x00002aaaac20d776 in QObject::activate_signal ()
> from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>
> I asked anma to reproduce, and with her, KStars even hung directly after
> downloading the ephemerids file, and as well after a restart.
>
> I hope this information helps to locate the problem (if there is any
> indeed),
>
> Bart Coppens
>
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