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David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Tue, 09/16/2014 - 14:09

If you have a VStar bug to report, please feel free to post here.

You may want to check:

  1. that no-one has posted the same report here;
  2. the SourceForge bug tracker to see whether the bug has already been captured. Ultimately, this is where bug reports posted here will migrate to.

David

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Thu, 07/09/2020 - 22:12
memory overflow

Hi Brad

Thanks for your bug report. The short answer is that this is a known problem that has been addressed in some ways but I completely agree, it is not yet a solved problem and needs more attention.

There is an old ticket for this but I've just created a new one:

  https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/issues/38

There is at least one simple way to improve the scenario you are faced with: increase the amount of memory available to the Java Virtual Machine when VStar is running, or "heap" size. This is mentioned in the ticket above. I can say more here or contact you via email about this.

David

WBY
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Sat, 07/11/2020 - 18:10
VStar Memory Overflow

I think VStar has some memory leaks. After sequentially loading analyzing and closing a number of data files, annecdotally it seems to be more than 20 or so,  some with a few thousand observations, others with a few hundred,  VStar seems to run out of memory as though it wasn't fully emptying its memory space when each data file is closed. 

A screenshot of the error message when this occurred when starting a DCDFT on the next file

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Mon, 07/13/2020 - 12:41
An odd counterpoint

Hi Brad

Today I've been working on and running a script that loads a few hundred datasets of at least 1000 observations per dataset, does period analysis, creates and saves a phase plot and saves this and light curve PNGs.

I'll have to compare notes with you in email on what you're loading compared to this etc.

David

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:39
VStar on Mac

Hello

I purchased aa new Mac laptop and get his message when trying to run VStar:

"VStar" can't be opened because Apple cannot check ot for malicious software.

The software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.

I am using the latest (2.21.2) VStar download

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks

George

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Sun, 09/27/2020 - 09:48
VStar on Mac

Hi George

Apologies for the delay.

I'm running macOS Catalina. Hw about you?

Are you using WebStart or the dmg downloaded from here:

  https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/releases/tag/2.21.2

I'm guessing the latter. If so, in Apple Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General, does "Allow apps downloaded from:" have "App Store" or "App Store and identified developers" selected?

What version of Java? I don't think that's the issue here, but just for comparison.

David

Mon, 10/12/2020 - 16:20
VStar on Mac

Hi David,

!. Running the dmg download V 2.21.2

2. Running Catalina 10.15.7

3. Running Java 8 update 261

4. App store and identified developers is selected

 

I dug out of a closet an HP laptop. I put Java and VSTAR on it. No problem getting VSTAR to come up. BUT! I installed the AAVSO Upload File plugin and when I try to use an Upload File i get the error:

Obsevation Read Error: No observations for specified period

I'm sure I am doing something wrong, but darned if I know what! A few years back I used VSTAR extensively. Thanks for your support and patience.

 

George

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Tue, 10/13/2020 - 10:03
VStar on Mac

Hi George

The error on HP you see may be due to not first selecting the plugin from the list in the file dialog, but using the standard simple/download plugin. You can switch back to the old way of having obs source plugins in File menu via plugin prefs to check.

On the Mac, have you tried ctrl-clicking the VStar file once unpacked from the DMG and then clicking Open? I wish I could see a screen shot of what you are seeing. Perhaps we could Skype if we still can't figure it out.

David

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 15:15
Hi David

Hi David

HP Prob:  Mia Culpa.  Wouldnt you know it, the upload file I chose for a test was without a check star! The field is very sparse. Upon choosing another upload file, all was well

Mac: Let me try a few things today. If I dont get anywhere, we can go to the next level.

 

again , thanks for your help and patience,

 

George

Tue, 10/13/2020 - 19:07
VStar on Mac

Hi David

Do you do Zoom? I could send you a Zoom link and share the VSTAR screen with you. 

There is also Teamviewer. With it you could take remote control of my Mac

 

George

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Wed, 10/14/2020 - 13:04
VStar on Mac

Hi George

Zoom is fine. Perhaps we can start there and go to Teamviewer if necessary.

What days/times are good for you? We can then match that up with my timezone (UTC+10.5).

David

Wed, 10/14/2020 - 16:16
Hi

Hi

I am currently UTC-4. On November 1 we will move to UTC-5.

I am retired so it might be easier for me to match your days.  Given a few days notice I can probably match a day you choose.    03:00 UTC until 11:00 UTC would not work for me

 

George

arx
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 06:59
Error from Gaia DR2 Photometry Plugin

I am trialling the Gaia DR2 Photometry plugin. First, I displayed the light curve for RR Ori from 2456698-2458198 JD, corresponding closely to a time span during which Gaia DR2 has published results for RR Ori.

When I try to add Gaia DR2 photometry to the light curve, the following error is displayed:

"New Star From Observation Source Read Error
org.aavso.tools.vstar.data.DateInfo.setJulianDay(D)V"

Roy

arx
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 21:02
Entries in the Gaia Load

Entries in the Gaia Load Parameters dialog were:

Gaia source_id 3349083629043128320. This was obtained from the Basic search on the Gaia Archive web page, with the target resolved by SIMBAD.

The error occurs whether or not one or both of the boxes "Transform Gaia passbands to V, R I?" and "Add to current?" are checked.

Roy

clkotnik
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 22:54
More Info

Roy,

Since RR Ori/Gaia DR2 3349083629043128320 works just fine for me I guess we need to dig deeper.

Let me just make sure of a couple points on recreating this.  Your earlier post mentioned a JD range.  Are you entering a Vela Filter for JD range in the Gaia Load Paramters dialog?  Also, do you get this error if you attempt to load this Gaia data immediately after starting VStar?

The other thing we should check is versions.  Can you let me know what the top line of VStar's Help->About window says? (eg. VStar 2.21.2 (git revision 1cbfe07))   Next, please open File->Preferences, click the Plug-ins tab and let me know what the last part of the URL path says (eg. vstar-plugins-2.21.2).

Finally, have you been able to get any Gaia data to load?

best regards,

Cliff

arx
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Wed, 12/09/2020 - 03:45
More Info

Cliff,

I should have thought to look first at my version of VStar. I'll do that when I get a chance and get back to you. If I need to update my version, I'll do that, try again and let you know the result.

If I have the latest version, I'll look at your other questions.

Thanks,

Roy

arx
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Wed, 12/09/2020 - 20:58
More Info

Cliff,

I am running VStar 2.21.2 (git revision lcbfe07).

"Are you entering a Vela Filter for JD range in the Gaia Load Paramters dialog?" I don't know what this means.

"Also, do you get this error if you attempt to load this Gaia data immediately after starting VStar?" The error occurs on any attempt to load Gaia data, irrespective of time since starting VStar.

"Next, please open File->Preferences, click the Plug-ins tab and let me know what the last part of the URL path says (eg. vstar-plugins-2.21.2)." The path is https://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/vstar-plugins/vstar-plugins-2…. The "load Pulins" box is checked.

And last, no I have not been able to load any Gaia data.

Roy

 

arx
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Wed, 12/09/2020 - 20:59
More Info - Correcting Typo

The second last sentence should have been "The "Load Plugins" box is checked.

Roy

clkotnik
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Wed, 12/09/2020 - 22:07
Can recreate the error

Roy,

With that I can recreate the error.  Here is what I think will fix your problem.

From VStar open Tool->Plugin Manager.  It takes a few seconds to open.

Scroll down to the Gaia DR2 plugin.  Highlight it.  Click Delete.  Close VStar with the red button that appears and open it again.

Open the plug-ins preference pane and change the last part of that URL from 2.20.0 to 2.21.2.

Open the Plug-in Manger again.  Scroll down to the Gaia plugin which will now be near the bottom of the list.  Highlight it.  Click Install.  Click the red button to shutdown VStar and start it once more.  The Gaia plug-in should now work for you.

Let me know how that goes.

regards,

Cliff