Stellarium 0.9.1 does not display characters properly unless invoked with LANG=C

[Louis-Xavier Brusset]

Binary package hint: stellarium

Recently I tried to launch Stellarium on my computer.
It didn't work properly as it does not display anything !!!
I am on Hardy Heron
I tried to reinstall it but it do not change anything.

So I launched it from a terminal and I got this :

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[ This is Stellarium 0.9.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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File search paths:
 0. /home/lxbrusset/.stellarium
 1. /usr/share/stellarium
Config file is: /home/lxbrusset/.stellarium/config.ini
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Sky language is fr
Application language is fr
Warning can't find module called "StelUI" .
Loading Solar System data...ERROR: C/2006 P1 (McNaught): you must provide orbit_PericenterDistance or orbit_SemiMajorAxis
(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: "Strasbourg", 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: fr
Localizing TUI for locale: fr
Script completed.
Loading Cities data for planet Earth...(2069 cities loaded)

There are some errors, so the problem may be comming from the packages ? (stellarium or stellarium-data)

Tell me what I can do to help solving this problem.

Thanks !
LBT

[valveillon (valveillon)]

Same problem here on Stellarium 0.9.1 on two different systems, one being a VirtualBox virtual machine and the other a clean standard install, both fully updated Hardy Heron amd64.

Launching the program with :

LANG=C stellarium

solved the problem.

May seems trivial but it's a true blocker for many user, and I can sees question about it flourishing on help forums...

Might be easy to fix ? ;-)

[valveillon (valveillon)]

Update : this seems to happen to French language users, not surprising given the nature of the bug. Both systems displaying the bug were French systems.

[Louis-Xavier Brusset (lxbrusset)]

I confirm it works !!!

2008/10/3 valveillon <email address hidden>

> Same problem here on Stellarium 0.9.1 on two different systems, one
> being a VirtualBox virtual machine and the other a clean standard
> install, both fully updated Hardy Heron amd64.
>
> Launching the program with :
>
> LANG=C stellarium
>
> solved the problem.
>
> May seems trivial but it's a true blocker for many user, and I can sees
> question about it flourishing on help forums...
>
> Might be easy to fix ? ;-)
>
> --
> Stellarium 0.9.1 do not display anything
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272475
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Cordialement,
Louis-Xavier BRUSSET

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

lowering severity due to extant workaround

[Marco Ciampa (ciampix)]

The problem seems the same of #458336 (that BTW has a very simple fix..:-) so I've marked as a duplicate.

[Marco Ciampa (ciampix)]

Sorry, I was too fast... could someone try if the remedy applied to bug #458336 cure this bug too? TIA

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Please provide a screenshot

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

I belive this has been fixed in version 1.5

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

sorry 0.10.5