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

[Jason Harris]

Hi,

oops, you'll need to delete asteroids.dat and comets.dat from your 
$KDEHOME/share/apps/kstars directory as well, in order to get KStars to start 
up.

Jason

On Sunday 14 January 2007 06:59, Jason Harris wrote:
> 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
> >
> > PS: Please CC me, I'm not subscribed
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