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kstars package

  1. Bug #870887
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 870887

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In , D. Charles Pyle (dcharlespyle) wrote :

(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > (In reply to comment #19)
> > > Could anyone experiencing crash attach a tarball with contents of
> > > ~/.kde/apps/kstars (or ~/.kde/share/apps/kstars it depends on distribution).
> > > Bug may manifest itself only with specific set of options and that's why it
> > > hadn't been reproduced yet.
> >
> > I am no longer experiencing this crash, at least not since I removed the files
> > from the program's data directory in my home folder and uninstalled all
> > installed KStars Add-ins. I have since upgraded KDE several times until I am
> > now at 4.7.2. Also recently updated were Qt components.
> >
> > KStars still is as version 2.0.0.
> >
> > Current version of Qt now displays 4.8.0 RC1 rather than 4.8.0 beta. Exact
> > package version is 4.8.0-0.15.rc1.fc16 and core package name is qt.x86_64.
> > qt.i686 package is not installed.
> >
> > I now am using Fedora 16-Beta x86_64. At the time of the crashes I was using
> > Fedora 15 x86_64, followed by Fedora 16-Beta of the same architecture.
>
>
> If you do that Kstars will still say the data is installed. If you try to
> uninstall it from the panel and restart Kstars you will notice it still says
> the various packages are installed.
>
> To remove that information you need to delete:
> ~/.kde4/share/apps/knewstuff3/kstars.knsregistry
>
> I run Kstars on Gentoo,
> Qt: 4.7.4
> KDE Development Platform: 4.7.2 (4.7.2)
> KStars: 2.0.0
>
> The only time I find that Kstars fails to launch from a clean install is if I
> try to install UNSO catalogue.

That did not happen on my system. Everything was listed as being uninstalled (all buttons have text that reads "Install" on them) after doing what I did. Of course, as I mentioned above, I manually uninstalled each entry while in the process of deleting the entire contents of the folder while leaving the data folder inside my home folder.

UNSO sounds familiar. That may be part of the cause of the crash after all. I'll have to experiment with that.