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Hi all,
Getting a reproducible hard crash in beta41 on my Sony A7 IV .ARW files. JVM aborts and the window just disappears. Wanted to flag it here in addition to the email I sent to support (with the .ips files attached).
Setup: macOS 26.4.1, Apple Silicon (MacBook Pro 18,3), APP 2.0.0-beta41 on GraalVM 24.0.1+9.1. Shot on Sony A7 IV, 14-bit ARW, ISO 8000, 4 s subs. 51 lights / 15 darks / 16 flats of comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS).
What I've tried:
- Full set (lights + darks + flats), defaults on 2) CALIBRATE → "create Masters & assign to Lights" → crash every time, 5-10 s in.
- Lights-only (no darks/flats). Got past master generation / assign a couple of times, but then crashed at 3) ANALYSE STARS instead. Same signature.
- RAM slider at default (512 MB) and at max — same crash either way, so it doesn't look memory-related.
- Cmd+Q and relaunch between attempts.
Crash signature (from the .ips):
- Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
- Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000008188
- Triggered by Thread 75 (Java: pool-91-thread-1)
- Crashing frame:
arm_libRawConverter.jnilib Java_com_ariesproductions_rawConversion_LibRawConverter_getRawData + 344
The crash is in the native raw decoder (getRawData), and the fact that it also crashes at analyse-stars with lights-only lines up — star analysis re-reads each light through the same decoder. Looks like a null-pointer deref at a small struct offset (0x8188), which feels like a header/metadata parsing issue specific to these ARWs.
Anyone else seeing this? Happy to send sample .ARWs if it helps repro.
Thanks, Gwen
