Bug 423805

$ kstars --paused --script ~/Documents/jup_iss_1.kstars --dump ~/Documents/jup_iss_1.png --width 1920 --height 1200
Reading time zone rules
Upgrade existing user city db to support geographic elevation.
City table already contains "Elevation".
Loading city data
Loading User Information
Loading sky objects
org.kde.kstars: Processing  "unnamedstars.dat" , HTMesh Level 3
org.kde.kstars:   Sky Mesh Size:  512
org.kde.kstars: Loaded DSO catalog file:  "unnamedstars.dat"
Loading Large Magellanic Clouds (1%)
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Loading Milky Way (1%)
Loading Milky Way (20%)
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Loading Constellation Boundaries (1%)
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org.kde.kstars: "Star HD20,794 not found."
org.kde.kstars: "Star HD98,230 not found."
File opened:  "/usr/share/kstars/ngcic.dat"
org.kde.kstars: Loading NGC/IC objects
Loading NGC/IC objects (1%)
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File opened:  "/home/alex/.local/share/kstars/comets.dat"
Loading Image URLs
org.kde.kstars: "Object named NGC 6050A not found"
"Could not set location named \"Chisinau\", \"Chisinau\", \"Moldova\""
Script executed.
Loading satellites

I thought it might be related to the empty Province value, but as you can see - setting a value for it didn't help.

Script:
#!/bin/bash
#KStars DBus script: jup_iss_1
#by 
#last modified: 2020-07-02T21:53:14
#
dbus-send --dest=org.kde.kstars --print-reply /KStars org.kde.kstars.setGeoLocation string:"Chisinau" string:"Chisinau" string:"Moldova"
dbus-send --dest=org.kde.kstars --print-reply /KStars org.kde.kstars.setLocalTime int32:2020 int32:6 int32:30 int32:4 int32:22 int32:52
dbus-send --dest=org.kde.kstars --print-reply /KStars org.kde.kstars.lookTowards string:"Jupiter"
dbus-send --dest=org.kde.kstars --print-reply /KStars org.kde.kstars.zoom double:160000.
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KStars version: 3.4.3+202007010658~ubuntu18.04.1