Stellarium crashes at startup (ICE default error handler doing an exit)

[mhotze]

Binary package hint: stellarium

I'm using ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

Starting Stellarium using Terminal gives following output:

maarten@maarten-desktop:~$ stellarium
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[ This is Stellarium 0.9.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
File search paths:
 0. /home/maarten/.stellarium
 1. /usr/share/stellarium
Config file is: /home/maarten/.stellarium/config.ini
Sky language is en_US.
Application language is en_US.
Warning can't find module called "StelUI" .
Loading Solar System data...(loaded)
Loading star data...
Loading stars_0_0v0_1.cat: 0_0v0_1; stars: 5013
Loading stars_1_0v0_1.cat: 1_0v0_1; stars: 21999
Loading stars_2_0v0_1.cat: 2_0v0_1; stars: 151416
Loading stars_3_1v0_0.cat: 3_1v0_0; stars: 434064
ZoneArray::create( "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_4_1v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_5_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_6_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_7_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_8_2v0_0.cat
finished, max_geodesic_level: 3
Loading location: "Paris", on Earth
Loading NGC data... (13226 items loaded [3175 dropped])
Loading NGC name data...( 222 names loaded)
Loading Nebula Textures for set default...(109 textures loaded)
Loading Constellation boundary data from /usr/share/stellarium/data/constellations_boundaries.dat... (782 segments loaded)
Loading star names from /usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab
Loading star sci names from /usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab
Loading Cities data for planet Earth...(2069 cities loaded)
Localizing TUI for locale: en_US.
Localizing TUI for locale: en_US.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 6917, errno = 32

[mhotze (m-hotze)]

Still occurs in 8.10. Using XUbuntu by the way.

[kabaiz (kabaiz)]

It works well with gksu

[James Goode (james-jgoode)]

I have the same problem on Xubuntu 8.10, though I've managed to run Stellarium on this computer with Ubuntu 8.10 with no problems. Though I can run it with gksu, the frame rate is less than one per second. I don't know much about video output, but I found that in VLC player, changing the video output to X11 slows the frame rate; this may be related.

[Francesco Potortì (pot)]

I get a crash in Ubuntu 8.10. I cured the crash by installing stellarium 0.10.0-0ubuntu1.

[Hunk (enrique-garciasimon)]

I get the same error with 8.04 Hardy

stellarium_0.9.1-2_i386.deb

madrid@max40:~/software$ stellarium
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.9.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
File search paths:
 0. /home/madrid/.stellarium
 1. /usr/share/stellarium
Config file is: /home/madrid/.stellarium/config.ini
Sky language is es_ES.
Application language is es_ES.
Warning can't find module called "StelUI" .
Loading Solar System data...(loaded)
Loading star data...
Loading stars_0_0v0_1.cat: 0_0v0_1; stars: 5013
Loading stars_1_0v0_1.cat: 1_0v0_1; stars: 21999
Loading stars_2_0v0_1.cat: 2_0v0_1; stars: 151416

Loading stars_3_1v0_0.cat: 3_1v0_0; stars: 434064
ZoneArray::create( "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_4_1v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_5_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_6_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_7_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_8_2v0_0.cat
finished, max_geodesic_level: 3
Loading location: "Paris", on Earth
Loading NGC data... (13226 items loaded [3175 dropped])
Loading NGC name data...( 222 names loaded)
Loading Nebula Textures for set default...(109 textures loaded)
Loading Constellation boundary data from /usr/share/stellarium/data/constellations_boundaries.dat... (782 segments loaded)
Loading star names from /usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab
Loading star sci names from /usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab
Loading Cities data for planet Earth...(2069 cities loaded)
Localizing TUI for locale: es_ES.
Localizing TUI for locale: es_ES.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7625, errno = 32

I have tried using gdb, and it works but very slowly (FPS = 0,05)

madrid@max40:~/software$ gdb stellarium
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/stellarium
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0xb6ae66c0 (LWP 7720)]
(no debugging symbols found)
Qt: gdb: -nograb added to command-line options.
  Use the -dograb option to enforce grabbing.
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[ This is Stellarium 0.9....

[Hunk (enrique-garciasimon)]

The same version of stellarium stellarium_0.9.1-2_i386.deb it is now working in ubuntu 8.04 (it is really a linux distribution called MAX based on UBUNTU HARDY 8.04 LTS )
http://www.educa.madrid.org/portal/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=10970.35&c=an

I have installed from CD (no DVD), and after doing a "really big udpate" (installed a package called max-desktop which dowloaded more than 800 packages), Stellarium works starting normally without errors and with FPS over 10. I guess that some one of this packages have the solution, but I don't know which one. I think the list of packages (may be some of them also are meta-packages which include more) is in
http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/browser/trunk/max-meta/desktop-i386

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Please test this with Stellarium 0.10.5 on Ubuntu 10.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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