SiriL 1.2.3/ 1.2.4 crashes upon registration lights

BKL24 · September 11, 2024, 7:50am

Hi all,
I’m having an issue with SiriL 1.2.3 and today 1.2.4 on MacOS 14.6.1 (23G93) (M3 Max, 36GB RAM, swap drive is a 8 TB SSD system. The data is on a SSD, too. Available storage on both SSDs is > 4 TB). Always as package download from the official site.

Data used:
205 lights from a Fuji GFX 100 II (102 MP per file)

What did I do:

Script OSC_preprocessing → processing of biases, darks, flats works as anticipated and masters are made from them. Preprocessing of lights, too. But as soon as the registration process starts SiriL crashes. Therefore, I don’t have a log.
Manuel processing to find the issue. It seems that only the part of the registration of the lights is affected.

This is the log I obtained from the terminal:

Siril is started as MacOS application
FFTW-Multithreading-Unterstützung wird initialisiert…
log: Wilkommen zu siril v1.2.4
log: Unterstützte Dateitypen: BMP Bilder, PIC Bilder (IRIS), Binäre PGM und PPM Bilder, RAW Bilder, FITS-CFA Bilder, Filme/Videos, SER Sequenzen, TIFF Bilder, JPG Bilder, PNG Bilder, HEIF Bilder.
log: Setting CWD (Current Working Directory) to ‘/Volumes/Data/Astro’
OMP: Info #276: omp_set_nested routine deprecated, please use omp_set_max_active_levels instead.
OMP: Info #276: omp_get_nested routine deprecated, please use omp_get_max_active_levels instead.
log: Parallel processing enabled: using 14 logical processors.
Successfully loaded ‘/Applications/Siril.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Resources/share/siril/siril.css’
Successfully loaded ‘/Applications/Siril.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Resources/share/siril/siril3.glade’
fetch_url(): https://siril.org/siril_versions.json
initializing CURL
log: Searching scripts in: “/Applications/Siril.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Resources/share/siril/scripts”…
log: Loading script: Mono_Preprocessing
log: Loading script: OSC_Extract_Ha
log: Loading script: OSC_Extract_HaOIII
log: Loading script: OSC_Preprocessing
log: Loading script: OSC_Preprocessing_WithDrizzle
log: Loading script: RGB_Composition
scripts: Error opening directory “/Users/bjoernlanglotz/Users/bjoernlanglotz/Library/Application Support/org.free-astro.Siril/scripts”: No such file or directory
scripts: Error opening directory “/Users/BKL24/.siril/scripts”: No such file or directory
scripts: Error opening directory “/Users/BKL24/siril/scripts”: No such file or directory
log: Loading registration method: 1-2-3 Stars Registration (deep-sky)
log: Loading registration method: Global Star Alignment (deep-sky)
log: Loading registration method: Two-Pass Global Star Alignment (deep-sky)
log: Loading registration method: Image Pattern Alignment (planetary - full disk)
log: Loading registration method: KOMBAT (planetary surfaces or full disk)
log: Loading registration method: Comet/Asteroid Registration
log: Loading registration method: Apply Existing Registration
log: Default FITS extension is set to .fit
Fetch succeeded with code 200 for URL https://siril.org/siril_versions.json
Last available version: 1.2.4
The URI points to a local file.
log: Setting CWD (Current Working Directory) to ‘/Volumes/Data/Astro/process’
log: Checking sequences in the directory: /Volumes/Data/Astro/process.

(siril:77303): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:36:56.999: no trigger event for menu popup
seqfile ‘dark_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
seqfile ‘bias_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
seqfile ‘pp_flat_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
seqfile ‘pp_light_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
seqfile ‘light_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
seqfile ‘flat_.seq’ already exists, not overwriting
Reading sequence file bias_.seq'. Reading sequence file dark_.seq’.
Reading sequence file flat_.seq'. Reading sequence file light_.seq’.
Reading sequence file pp_flat_.seq'. Reading sequence file pp_light_.seq’.
Loaded 6 sequences
Reading sequence file `pp_light_.seq’.
Purging previously saved reference frame data.
log: Reading FITS: file pp_light_00001.fit, 3 layer(s), 11662x8752 pixels, 32 bits
bitpix for the sequence is set as -32
log: Sequence loaded: pp_light_ (1->205)
Purging previously saved reference frame data.
number of filtered-in images: 205
number of filtered-in images: 205
number of filtered-in images: 205
number of filtered-in images: 205
Saved the reference frame buffer for alignment preview.
log: Registration: processing using method: Global Star Alignment (deep-sky)
log: Interpolation clamping active
Memory per image: 1168 MB. Max memory: 25938 MB
log: Global star registration: with the current memory and thread limits, up to 6 thread(s) can be used
log: Reading FITS: file pp_light_00001.fit, 3 layer(s), 11662x8752 pixels, 32 bits
log: Reference Image:
log: Findstar: processing for channel 1…
0 Siril 0x0000000102455ca8 signal_handled + 168
1 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x0000000185522584 _sigtramp + 56
2 Siril 0x000000010254b2c0 _ZN12_GLOBAL__N_113gaussVerticalIfEEvPPT_S3_iid + 240
3 Siril 0x0000000102545730 .omp_outlined. + 48
4 libomp.dylib 0x0000000102ccdc7c __kmp_invoke_microtask + 156
5 ??? 0x000000000000000e 0x0 + 14
Error, signal 10:

Thanks,

Bjoern

lock042 · September 11, 2024, 10:55am

It is difficult to say.
As you say, it is not a 1.2.4 specific issue. However, we never heard about crashes in registration from other users. So either it is specific to your system or to the images.

Please, load the pp_light_00001.fit image. Then, type findstar in the command line. If it crashes, share the image, please.

BKL24 · September 11, 2024, 2:44pm

Thanks for the quick tipp! SiriL crashes. on using the findstar command. Can I send the fit image via retransfer? In that case I need a email address to send it to.

Thanks again,

Bjoern

lock042 · September 11, 2024, 4:02pm

You can send it via WeTransfer. It will produce a direct link.

BKL24 · September 11, 2024, 5:57pm

OK, I’ll check later today and come back with the link.
I just check SiriL with a file (converted to fit) from a 50 MP Sony a1: With this file the findstar command works. With the 102 MP GFX 100 II files it crashes.

BKL24 · September 11, 2024, 7:40pm

The link is:

There’re two files: pp_light_00001.fit and the corresponding raw-file from the camera in case you’d like to check with it what’s going on.

Thanks again!

Bjoern

lock042 · September 11, 2024, 8:49pm

I tried your images. No crash. But your fit image is very strange. I don’t understand how you got something like that :

If I debayer your RAF image I get:

BKL24 · September 12, 2024, 5:11am

Thanks,
I just found out that I accidentally used flats from a different lens combination to create the pp_light_00001.fit.
Do you have any tipp for me what I can do to get my installation running? Deleting / reinstalling resources?
It’s running on MacOS 14.6.1 (23G93), processor is a M3 Max

BKL24 · September 12, 2024, 9:55am

A short update: converting the RAF files to dng-files doesn’t help.
Applying the findstar command to the RAF-file itself leads to a crash, too.
Is there a possibility for a memory issue or something specific for MacOS?

BKL24 · September 12, 2024, 1:36pm

On more thing I found out:
I loaded a tiff-file into SiriL and “tried” to use the editing functions. I started with a background extraction to remove a gradient. SiriL immediately crashed. It first changed when I reduced the file size of the original 102 MP. Though, it seems that one “option for the problem” with my configuration might be in the memory handling of SiriL. I have no idea, whether this helps. Obviously with other machines it’s working. It was a surprise to learn that a quite powerful machine like a M3Max equipped with plenty of very fast memory runs into such an issue.

Nevertheless, is there any suggestion how one could work around this issue?

lock042 · September 12, 2024, 2:32pm

Hello. We are working on it. Yes it looks like a memory issue, probably specific to macOS because I really can’t spot any error on my Linux machine.

BKL24 · September 12, 2024, 7:02pm

If you need any help i.e. with testing, don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’m happy to support!

lock042 · September 12, 2024, 7:42pm

You could test the master version, to see if the bug always occurs:
Intel version: https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/jobs/7779758359/artifacts/download
Apple Silicon version: https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/jobs/7779758357/artifacts/download

lock042 · September 13, 2024, 3:03pm

@BKL24 : any update?

BKL24 · September 14, 2024, 6:28pm

Unfortunately,
it’s not working at all. Upon starting MacOS brings a popup stating that the program is broken.

lock042 · September 14, 2024, 7:04pm

The line you have to write in the command line is written in the dmg

BKL24 · September 14, 2024, 7:37pm

Sorry,
haven’t seen it. It’s working! At least I could load the 102 MP GFX 100 II raw file and use the findstar command. I’ll check tomorrow in more “depth”.

Thanks very much!!!

lock042 · September 14, 2024, 7:50pm

Can’t reproduce the background extraction crash. Could you,

BKL24 · September 15, 2024, 5:50pm

Hi,
it’s working. Great thanks very much!
All processing works including registration, stacking, background extraction etc. At least I can stack now all the images with this camera. Once this version is final and all functions are activated (some are grey, i.e. phometric color calibration) I finalize the images.

lock042 · September 15, 2024, 6:44pm

All function are available.
The behavior of dev version is quite different from 1.2 for color calibration. You need to plate solve first.