Broken Kstars v3.5.0-beta "empty sky"

[Akarsh Simha]

Well, it does seem like KStars is finding some of the object databases. We
do see, for example, that it did find and load some star databases
(unnamedstars.dat, deepstars.dat ...).

I'm hoping that we deprecated the GL backend, and it isn't being used. One
thing you can try is to see if removing your config file helps and
reintroduce the non-problematic lines of the config file that you care
about back. Your config should be found in ~/.config/kstarsrc on Linux
machines. Not sure what the equivalent path is on other OSes.

I've attached a snippet of my output (in my case, KStars works, and I just
discovered the "HiPS all sky survey" overlay, which is AWESOME).

[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Welcome to KStars 3.5.0 Beta
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Build: 2020-09-21T00:25:30Z
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - OS: "arch"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Arch: "x86_64"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Kernel Type: "linux"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Kernel Version: "5.8.8-arch1-1"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Qt Version: 5.15.0
[30 19:37:31 D] unknown (0) - Opened the User DB. Ready.
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Processing  "unnamedstars.dat" , HTMesh Level
3
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) -   Sky Mesh Size:  512
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Loaded DSO catalog file:  "unnamedstars.dat"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Processing  "deepstars.dat" , HTMesh Level 3
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) -   Sky Mesh Size:  512
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Loaded DSO catalog file:  "deepstars.dat"
[30 19:37:31 I] unknown (0) - Processing  "USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat" , HTMesh
Level 6
[30 19:37:32 I] unknown (0) -   Sky Mesh Size:  32768
[30 19:37:32 I] unknown (0) - Loaded DSO catalog file:  "USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat"
[30 19:37:32 W] unknown (0) - "Star HD20,794 not found."
[30 19:37:32 W] unknown (0) - "Star HD98,230 not found."
[30 19:37:32 D] unknown (0) - File opened:
 "/home/akarsh/devel/kde-devel/inst/branches/kstars/share/kstars/ngcic.dat"
[30 19:37:32 I] unknown (0) - Loading NGC/IC objects
[30 19:37:40 D] unknown (0) - File opened:
 "/home/akarsh/.local/share/kstars/comets.dat"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named NGC 6050A not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Ceres not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pallas not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Vesta not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Cybele not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Europa not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Psyche not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Juno not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Themis not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Astraea not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Lumen not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Ida not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Mathilde not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Eros (1898 DQ) not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Hektor (1907 XM) not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named 2 Encke not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named 1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Hyakutake (1991 XC1) not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named 1973 E1 (Kohoutek) not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named 81 Wild 2 not found"
[30 19:37:40 W] unknown (0) - "Object named Pluto not found"

Am Mi., 30. Sept. 2020 um 19:21 Uhr schrieb Raymond Lillard <
rlillard at sonic.net>:

> There are a large number of files in the places you listed.
>
> I am guessing but are those paths complied in somewhere or are the set
> in a config file somewhere.?
>
> I ask because I suspect the problem has to do with the snap version I
> installed first.  I hate snaps.
>
> I looked around in the settings menu and didn't see anything that looked
> broken.
>
>
> On 9/30/20 6:55 PM, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> > At least on Linux, the files are in /usr/share/kstars and
> > ~/.local/share/kstars, typically.
>
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