Does not load with Mac OSX 10.6.2 - fragmented pixellated splash screen

[Keith Baker]

I have used Stellarium successfully with Max OSX 10.4.11 I've now upgraded to an Intel MacPro running 10.6.2 and Stellarium appears to be incompatible with this system software and crashes [quits unexpectedly]

[Fabien Chéreau (xalioth)]

Stellarium 0.10.2 is incompatible with OSX 10.6, you have to wait for the next release based on Qt 4.6
Fabien

[Serendigity (steve-serendigity)]

I seem to be able to run the current version 0.10.2 with Mac OS 10.6.2 okay. A brief fragmented pixellated screen at startup does not prevent app for running in my case. I have iMac 27inch using 2560x1440 resolution.

[Raji (rajaniblue)]

I am in the same situation as Serendigity. I can run the current version OK (and I have played with all the various functions and features, loaded additional star charts, landscapes and nebulae), but do get the brief artifacted/pixellated screen just before the startup logo. I have an early 2009 MacBook Pro unibody, 2.8 ghz/4 GB RAM, running NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics. I am using 1440x900 resolution.

I do have to say that this version does seem to be a CPU hog though, if I do much in it (other than having the basic sky view while letting normal time run), it makes my laptop hot and the fans come on frequently.

[saab (koltrasten)]

My 2 cents on this...

Stellarium 0.10.2 runs fine on Mac OS X 10.6.2 - either in an admin account or in a standard user account - but not for both using the same installation after having downloaded the star catalogs.

If you install Stellarium as an adminUser for all user on a OS X machine, the application itself obviously goes into "/Applications" . You then run it as admin, and download the star catalogs (I mean, why not? You want them. :). For some reason, these are installed in the adminUser's account. On starting Stellarium as a standardUser on the same computer, the application crashes directly as it can't access the star catalogs.

Copying
"/Users/[adminUser]/Library/Preferences/Stellarium"
to
"/Users/[standardUser]/Library/Preferences/Stellarium"
and chown this Stellarium directory and all its files to the standardUser:group solves the problem. The standardUser can now run Stellarium.

Having 1 GB of data duplicated for every user on a machine is not a good idea. Extra read only data files, templates, example files, demos, etc. for applications installed for all user on Mac OS X machine (i.e. for any Application installed in "/Applications") should *not* be installed ~/Library. They should be installed in "/Library/Application support" for all users to read/execute.

[Fabien Chéreau (xalioth)]

The pixelated splash screen problem should be fixed for the next release.