OpenCPN 5.8.4 crashes on startup but runs from terminal

[WoodMan62]

New to linux and rasberry pi. I have a pi 5 running open plotter 4. mccarthur hat and daisy hat running ais and a gps dongle.
opencpn was running fine before i started integrating data from signal k (2.7.1). After this it crashes immediately on start up from the openplotter desktop. I have tried moving the data folder for opencpn, disabling plug ins for opencpn and signalk, as well as turning of openGL.

nothing changes the issue. I can run it under sudo from a terminal and everything seems to run fine. Here is the log and config files for opencpn

LOG:

872 MESSAGE waypointman_gui.cpp:68 Loading UserIcons from /root/.opencpn/UserIcons/
12:06:56.872 MESSAGE navutil.cpp:1694 Loading navobjects from navobj.xml
12:06:56.872 MESSAGE navutil.cpp:1705 Done loading navobjects, 0 duplicate waypoints ignored
12:06:56.872 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4834 Getting .gpx layer files from: /root/.opencpn/layers
12:06:57.021 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...1
12:06:57.021 MESSAGE comm_drv_factory.cpp:54 MakeCommDriver: Serial:/dev/ttyOP_daisyh
12:06:57.021 MESSAGE comm_drv_factory.cpp:54 MakeCommDriver: Signal K:localhost:3000
12:06:57.021 MESSAGE comm_drv_signalk_net.cpp:275 Opening Signal K WebSocket client: Signal K:localhost:3000
12:06:57.022 MESSAGE comm_drv_factory.cpp:54 MakeCommDriver: Serial:/dev/ttyOP_gps
12:06:57.093 MESSAGE comm_drv_signalk_net.cpp:357 Connected to Signal K server version: 2.7.1
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...2
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:246 PluginLoader: loading plugins from /root/.local/lib/opencpn;/usr/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:162 Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /root/.local/lib/opencpn:/usr/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:194 Using PATH: /root/.local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:251 Loading plugins from dir: /root/.local/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:444 PluginLoader searching for PlugIns in location /root/.local/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:458 Directory /root/.local/lib/opencpn does not exist.
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:251 Loading plugins from dir: /usr/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:444 PluginLoader searching for PlugIns in location /usr/lib/opencpn
12:06:57.157 MESSAGE plugin_loader.cpp:458 Directory /usr/lib/opencpn does not exist.
12:06:57.165 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:554 BuildFBO 3
12:06:57.165 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1009 OpenGL-> Framebuffer OK, size = 1918
12:06:57.271 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:1006 ChangeLocale: Language load for: en_US
12:06:57.272 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:1059 ChangeLocale: Locale Init OK for: en_US
12:06:57.272 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:1084 Loading catalog for opencpn core.
12:06:57.272 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:925 Getting DefaultSystemLocale...
12:06:57.335 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...3
12:06:57.474 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...4
12:06:57.534 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:823 Starting OpenGL test...
12:06:57.655 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:829 OpenGL test complete.
12:06:57.655 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:850 OpenGL determined CAPABLE.
12:06:57.661 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:823 Starting OpenGL test...
12:06:57.664 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:829 OpenGL test complete.
12:06:57.664 MESSAGE OCPNPlatform.cpp:850 OpenGL determined CAPABLE.
12:06:58.108 MESSAGE options.cpp:5348 options: got device count: 4
12:06:58.259 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...5
12:06:58.360 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...6
12:06:58.461 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:4739 OnInitTimer...7
12:06:58.461 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:5025 OnInitTimer...Last Call
12:06:58.461 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:5043 OnInitTimer...Finalize Canvases
12:06:58.477 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:554 BuildFBO 3
12:06:58.477 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1009 OpenGL-> Framebuffer OK, size = 1918
12:06:58.504 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:554 BuildFBO 3
12:06:58.504 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1009 OpenGL-> Framebuffer OK, size = 1918
12:06:58.732 MESSAGE chartdb.cpp:1169 Creating new chart
12:06:58.732 MESSAGE chartdb.cpp:1286 Initializing Chart /home/Big_Time_Brendo/Documents/Charts/ENC/US_OR/US5OR43M/US5OR43M.000
12:06:58.733 MESSAGE s57chart.cpp:2713 S57chart::Checking SENC file: /root/.opencpn/SENC/2556420DB639_US5OR43M.S57
12:07:02.307 ERROR htmlwin.cpp:586 Unable to open requested HTML document: file:///usr/share/opencpn/authors.html
12:07:55.336 MESSAGE ocpn_frame.cpp:5641 LOGBOOK: 2024-04-15 19:07:55 UTC GPS Lat 44.65556 Lon -123.11512 COG 347.27000 SOG 0.20 kts

CONFIG:

S57DataLocation=
InitChartDir=/home/Big_Time_Brendo/Documents/Charts/ENC
GPXIODir=
TCDataDir=
BasemapDir=/usr/share/opencpn/gshhs/
pluginInstallDir=
[Canvas]
CanvasConfig=0
[Canvas/CanvasConfig1]
canvasVPLatLon=" 44.6229, -124.0509"
canvasVPScale=0.904375
canvasVPRotation=0
canvasInitialdBIndex=26
canvasbFollow=0
ActiveChartGroup=0
canvasToolbarConfig=
canvasShowToolbar=0
canvasQuilt=1
canvasShowGrid=0
canvasShowOutlines=1
canvasShowDepthUnits=1
canvasShowAIS=1
canvasAttenAIS=0
canvasShowTides=0
canvasShowCurrents=0
canvasShowENCText=1
canvasENCDisplayCategory=83
canvasENCShowDepths=1
canvasENCShowBuoyLabels=1
canvasENCShowLightDescriptions=0
canvasENCShowLights=1
canvasENCShowVisibleSectorLights=1
canvasENCShowAnchorInfo=0
canvasENCShowDataQuality=0
canvasCourseUp=0
canvasHeadUp=0
canvasLookahead=0
canvasSizeX=1918
canvasSizeY=986
[ChartDirectories]
ChartDir1=/home/Big_Time_Brendo/Documents/Charts/ENC/US_OR^5169477463940372518
ChartDir2=/home/Big_Time_Brendo/Documents/Charts/ENC/US_WA^2926934107275196095
[AUI]
AUIPerspective=layout2|name=ChartCanvas;caption=;state=768;dir=5;layer=0;row=0;pos=0;prop=100000;bestw=1918;besth=986;minw=384;minh=988;maxw=-1;maxh=-1;floatx=-1;floaty=-1;floatw=-1;floath=-1|dock_size(5,0,0)=386|
[TideCurrentDataSources]
tcds0=/usr/share/opencpn/tcdata/harmonics-dwf-20210110-free.tcd
tcds1=/usr/share/opencpn/tcdata/HARMONICS_NO_US.IDX

[leamas]

You should never, never run opencpn using sudo. If you have done this once it means that some files created by opencpn might be owned by root. You might come into a situation where you cannot access these files without running as root while the desktop system rightfully refuses some operations if done by root,

In short, if you have used sudo to run opencpn you might be in a quagmire which can be hard to get out of.

Also, there is not much experience is RPi 5 out there yet.

You can get more info in the logfile by adding the --loglevel debug command line option when running opencpn:

Your log have this line:

Unable to open requested HTML document: file:///usr/share/opencpn/authors.html

This looks suspicious. If you have installed opencpn correctly this file should exist. You should check this with the OpenPlotter community.,

[leamas]

... and running a large application as opencpn as root generally comes with all sorts of risks to destabilize the overall system. This is Linux, and running as root means that there are absolutely no safety nets at all.