Stellarium freezes with blank window (intrepid)

[LinuxGuyInVA]

Binary package hint: stellarium

After upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10, stellarium never gets past a certain point in startup.

LSB-Release: Ubuntu 8.10
apt-cache policy: stellarium:
  Installed: 0.9.1-4
  Candidate: 0.9.1-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.1-4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My ~/.stellarium/config.ini is set to use a window (not fullscreen). You can see how far it got in drawing the frame before freezing here: http://chien-noir.com/stellarium-screenshot.jpg .

Tested on a Dell Latitude D610, ATI M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] using the open source radeon driver with and without an attached ViewSonic VA2226w monitor (the fglrx driver does not work well with my two monitor setup). Behaviour is reproducible with a "virgin" account so it's not my user-specific setup.

[LinuxGuyInVA (ppmurphy)]

The problem may have been in the X11 server, not necessarily with Stellarium. I was using the open source radeon driver, but after a brief fling with trying to use fglrx (which still doesn't handle my 2 monitor setup in a usable manner), I reverted to the OSS driver once again. Then all of a sudden things started working (Stellarium, f-spot at least).

I think I noticed one possible freeze/crash occur, and when I close Stellarium now it's very verbose about, for example, "*** glibc detected *** stellarium: corrupted double-linked list: 0x09aab168 ***" but at least it's usable!

Sorry for any red herrings...

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Please test Maverick 10.10 and Stellarium 0.10.5