Stellarium crashes on startup in Win XP SP3

[Paul dutton]

Win XP with SP3 installed.
Have tried start 4 times with same result each time.
Programme starts and then crashes without the chance for any user interaction.

2010-03-29T21:19:57
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Qt runtime version: 4.6.2
Qt compilation version: 4.6.2
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 34%
Processor speed: 3192 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/duttz/Application Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Application Data\Stellarium"
  1 . "."
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Application Data\Stellarium/config.ini"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Local Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "./stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
WARNING: in StelTexture::~StelTexture() tried to delete invalid texture with ID= 50 Current GL ERROR status is 0
WARNING: in StelTexture::~StelTexture() tried to delete invalid texture with ID= 41 Current GL ERROR status is 0
WARNING: in StelTexture::~StelTexture() tried to delete invalid texture with ID= 43 Current GL ERROR status is 0

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Could you please download and install the test build from here:
https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download
And report if the problem persists?

Also, what is the model of your graphics card?

[Paul dutton (foxduttz)]

On 30/03/2010 08:24, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
> Could you please download and install the test build from here:
> https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download
> And report if the problem persists?
>
> Also, what is the model of your graphics card?
>
>
The problem persists and the log is as follows:

2010-03-31T21:12:50
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Qt runtime version: 4.6.2
Qt compilation version: 4.6.2
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 33%
Processor speed: 3192 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.5 (SVN r6054) - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/duttz/Application
Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
   0 . "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Application Data\Stellarium"
   1 . "."
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Application
Data\Stellarium/config.ini"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in
hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in
hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\duttz\Local
Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in
hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "./stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in
hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in
hardware. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."

Please note that the graph...

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Could you please try the following? In Stellarium's configuration file (config.ini), under "[main]" add the following line:

use_qpaintenginegl2 = false

(On Windows, the configuration file is accessible through a shortcut in Stellarium's Start menu folder.)

[Paul dutton (foxduttz)]

This appears to have solved the problem; will it work for the standard
download copy of the programme?

Regards

Paul

On 01/04/2010 09:09, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
> Could you please try the following? In Stellarium's configuration file
> (config.ini), under "[main]" add the following line:
>
> use_qpaintenginegl2 = false
>
> (On Windows, the configuration file is accessible through a shortcut in
> Stellarium's Start menu folder.)
>
>

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Not for 0.10.4, this was added after that. It will work for 0.10.5, when it comes out. It is supposed to be released this week. (I hope that it is.)

[Ron Culver (ronc-earthlink)]

Stellarium crashes immediately after loading on my system (latest updated XP) - both build 0.10.4 and the download on this thread was tried (stellarium-r6054-win32.exe) - the resulting log follows below. But, first a quick comment...

The older version (stellarium-0.9.1) ran without problems on this same PC for some time, however on attempting to reinstall that version, I see the same immediate crash problem, so I believe it may have something to do with a recent update of XP... maybe a missing or a changed .DLL file.

2010-04-01T16:21:51
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Qt runtime version: 4.6.2
Qt compilation version: 4.6.2
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 1982 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 35%
Processor speed: 1994 MHz
Processor name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
D:\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.5 (SVN r6054) - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/hc2652/Application Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "C:\Documents and Settings\hc2652\Application Data\Stellarium"
  1 . "."
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "C:\Documents and Settings\hc2652\Application Data\Stellarium/config.ini"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in software due to the GLSL fragment shader running in software. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in software due to the GLSL fragment shader running in software. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\hc2652\Local Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
QGLShader::link: " Link successful. The GLSL vertex shader will run in software due to the GLSL fragment shader running in software. The GLSL fragment shader will run in hardware."
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading sta...

[Ron Culver (ronc-earthlink)]

Ooops forgot to add that I modified a config.ini file to add the "use_qpaintenginegl2 = false" line to try that (to no avail.) But the config file name was 'default_config.ini' in the Stellarium/data directory...

Hope this helps find this bug. Good luck, and thank you for your hard work!

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

As the name suggests, "default_config.ini" is the default configuration file. It is used by Stellarium to restore the one it actually uses if it's missing (e.g. when Stellarium is installed).

Please follow the instructions in comment #3 above to add the line to Stellarium's _active_ configuration file.

"The older version (stellarium-0.9.1) ran without problems on this same PC for some time, however on attempting to reinstall that version, I see the same immediate crash problem..."

It is possible that the drivers of your graphics card have been updated (or down-dated :)) to a version with buggy OpenGL support.

It is also possible that Stellarium 0.9.1 gets confused by the newer configuration file. You can try deleting your user data directory before installing the older version. On your computer, it should be:
C:\Documents and Settings\hc2652\Application Data\Stellarium

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

This should have been fixed with the rest of the OpenGL issues.