Description of problem: I tried to set up Kstars and INDI on Fedora 14 to be able to control my Meade ETX125 telescope. Kstars is unable to set up the communication with the telescope because it is apparently looking for a "indi_lx200autostar" driver which does not exist. The only drivers for Meade telescopes available in the libindi package are "indi_lx200basic" and "indi_lx200generic": -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 88608 21. Aug 13:38 indi_celestron_gps -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 56816 21. Aug 13:38 indi_eval -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 88248 21. Aug 13:38 indi_fli_ccd -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 75872 21. Aug 13:38 indi_fli_pdf -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 75584 21. Aug 13:38 indi_fli_wheel -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 45992 21. Aug 13:38 indi_getprop -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 84000 21. Aug 13:38 indi_intelliscope -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 96216 21. Aug 13:38 indi_lx200basic -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 194712 21. Aug 13:38 indi_lx200generic -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 117056 21. Aug 13:38 indi_meade_lpi -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 84384 21. Aug 13:38 indi_orion_atlas -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86120 21. Aug 13:38 indi_robofocus -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 109336 21. Aug 13:38 indi_sbig_stv -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 42248 21. Aug 13:38 indiserver -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 44528 21. Aug 13:38 indi_setprop -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 84000 21. Aug 13:38 indi_skycommander -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 84568 21. Aug 13:38 indi_temma -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 71568 21. Aug 13:38 indi_trutech_wheel -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 115056 21. Aug 13:38 indi_v4l_generic -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 119944 21. Aug 13:38 indi_v4l_philips Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libindi-0.6.2-1.fc14.x86_64 kdeedu-kstars-4.5.2-2.fc13.x86_64 kdeedu-kstars-libs-4.5.2-2.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start Kstars 2. try to set up telescope via "Telescope Wizard" in "Device" menu 3. click through screens, Kstars will hang when trying to connect to the telescope Actual results: Kstars hangs when trying to connect to telescope Expected results: Should be able to control telescope from Kstars Additional info: Here's the section from /usr/share/indi/drivers.xml which shows that there should be a indi_lx200autostar driver for my trelescope: <device label="ETX125" focal_length="1900" aperture="127"> <driver name="LX200 Autostar">indi_lx200autostar</driver> <version>2.0</version> </device>
indi_lx200autostar seems to be a symlink to indi_lx200generic. I will research why the symlink is not created during install stage. As a workaround you can create the symlink yourself.
Ok, adding a symlink from /usr/bin/indi_lx200autostar to /usr/bin/indi_lx200generic fixed the issue for me. I noticed that some other drivers (or symlinks) that are listed in /usr/share/indi/drivers.xml are missing as well, for example "indi_lx200gps", "indi_lx200classic" or "indi_lx200ap". Maybe those can be fixed in the next version of libindi as well (libindi 0.7.1 has just been released btw, maybe something to add in Fedora 15).
libindi-0.6.2-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libindi-0.6.2-2.fc14
libindi-0.6.2-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libindi'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libindi-0.6.2-2.fc14
Just wanted to report that with the new package the links to indi_lx200autostar and the other lx200 related drivers are created correctly. Thanks for fixing this so quickly!
libindi-0.6.2-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.