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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0001419 | SkyChart | 1-Software | public | 15-08-30 02:36 | 15-09-02 21:53 |
Reporter | Lance Carter | Assigned To | Patrick Chevalley | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | always |
Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
Platform | X86 | OS | Windows | OS Version | 7 |
Product Version | 3.11 SVN | ||||
Target Version | 4.0 | Fixed in Version | 3.11 SVN | ||
Summary | 0001419: Initialization error: Invalid input | ||||
Description | When I try to start Skychart I get error box: "Initialization error: Invalid input" The main screen appears and I can load a file, but various problems: I had previously modified a .cln file to change a constellation line and got results, but when I tried to change .cln file to the provided default and pick Apply and get a box: "Access violation" I pick OK to ignore and risk data corruption instead of Cancel to kill. Pick Apply and the program crashes. Also: if try to reset the date, the program crashes. Skychart.exe is not responding. This problem occurred in a previous version 11 but just uploaded and installed: skychart-3.11-3126-windows.zip It had the same problems.. (How does a .cln file get modified and not cause crashes?) | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | modify a number data in .cln file. Can't reproduce because can load program correctly. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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The only way to find the source of this error is to run the program in debug mode on your computer. Please install the last beta version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/0-beta/2015-08-10/ Then install the debug files and run as describe in this page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/0-beta/debug/2015-08-10/ Copy here the result of the gdb bt command. |
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Tried to open the debug Windows zip file, but Windows box: Windows cannot open folder... Folder is invalid. -- bin-windows_i386-debug-3126.zip 2015-08-10 36.4 MB downloaded the zip file twice but same result when try to unzip. I |
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I download the file on my Win 7 system and it open fine. Try to download from another Sourceforge mirror: After you click the download link you get a page that wait 5 seconds. On this page click "try another mirror", and select one near from your location. For me HEAnet,Ireland worked fine. |
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I downloaded from the autoselect link and Windows again: Windows cannot read the folder: Compressed folder error... bin-windows_i386-debug-3126.zip is invalid. I haven't had this error before and only with skychart I am trying to update to Windows 10 |
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The problem is fixed by opening a new cdc3 file from new 3126 directory. Then I opened a cln from the new build directory and skychart functioned OK. I tried opening previously working cln files, but they made skychart crash, so maybe my cln files were all corrupt. Anyway, the Setup>Display>Lines>Constellational Figures File names kept reverting to the old ciel directory, which kept the corrupted files, even though it was already pointing to the new directory. I uploaded a file I made by testing the date by setting it to BC. The constellation lines don't go to the Alpha star of Cepheus because of proper motion. Perhaps the cln lines could be based on the star name or BSC? |
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OK, I better understand. A cln file format error is probably the reason for this error message. The program read four space separated floating point value on each row and any discrepancy can raise this error. In Cdc V2 the constellation where defined using the star HR number, but I replace them by coordinates after a request to draw figure not related to a star. I agree with the proper motion problem. Maybe a solution is to make the program to accept both format, coordinates and HR number? I try to do that. |
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Both issue are fixed by revision 3127. Now the default constellation file use the HR star number to define the vectors. This allow for proper motion correction of the figures. The coordinates file format can still be selected and must no more crash on error. If the program is run with the --verbose option it report any format error in the trace file. This change will be available in next Monday beta version. http://sourceforge.net/p/skychart/code/3127 |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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15-08-30 02:36 | Lance Carter | New Issue | |
15-08-31 20:23 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0003044 | |
15-08-31 20:23 | Patrick Chevalley | Assigned To | => Patrick Chevalley |
15-08-31 20:23 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | new => feedback |
15-09-01 03:19 | Lance Carter | Note Added: 0003045 | |
15-09-01 03:19 | Lance Carter | Status | feedback => assigned |
15-09-01 07:40 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0003046 | |
15-09-01 07:40 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | assigned => feedback |
15-09-01 22:53 | Lance Carter | Note Added: 0003047 | |
15-09-01 22:53 | Lance Carter | Status | feedback => assigned |
15-09-01 23:57 | Lance Carter | File Added: AlphaCephus+Bad_Outline.png | |
15-09-02 00:04 | Lance Carter | Note Added: 0003048 | |
15-09-02 10:33 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0003049 | |
15-09-02 21:53 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0003050 | |
15-09-02 21:53 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | assigned => resolved |
15-09-02 21:53 | Patrick Chevalley | Resolution | open => fixed |
15-09-02 21:53 | Patrick Chevalley | Fixed in Version | 0.3.0 => 3.11 SVN |
15-09-02 21:53 | Patrick Chevalley | Target Version | 0.3.0 => 4.0 |