Ubuntu 10.10Beta -- no left side menus

[Don Weiss]

The left side menus, including the location setting, times setting, search, etc., don't show up in the Stellarim that I just installed in my new installation of Ubuntu 10.10 Beta.

[Sorry, but I don't know how to "copy the content of the console log" whatever that is.]

[Hsn (alshawaf)]

what about the other menu the one in the down side does it appear or not?

you can get the system log and report a bug by using this command in terminal ubuntu-bug <name of the package> in you case copy this command and past it in terminal and it will collect all the data and system log
ubuntu-bug stellarium
after entering the command a dialog will appear to report a bug
just fallow it and your bug will be reported

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Which version of Stellarium is that? 0.10.4 that is in the default repositories, or 0.10.5 from the PPA or the Debian repositories?

The log file is called "log.txt" and can be found in ~/.stellarium (the hidden subdirectory ".stellarium" of your home directory). You don't need to copy the log's contents, you can simply attach the file. (Use the "Add attachment or patch" link below.)

[Don Weiss (henrodon)]

It's 0.10.4

the bottom pop-up menu appears, no problem.

I tried the automatic bug reporting but got the following result (log.txt file result below):

lee@ubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug stellarium

(apport-gtk:1512): IBUS-WARNING **: Connect to unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-MPUkEqBBWM,guid=e8d86c06d55f85d66893fb384c935f78 failed: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-MPUkEqBBWM: Connection refused.
lee@ubuntu:~$
(firefox-bin:1585): IBUS-WARNING **: Connect to unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-MPUkEqBBWM,guid=e8d86c06d55f85d66893fb384c935f78 failed: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-MPUkEqBBWM: Connection refused.
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
^C
So here's the log.txt file

2010-09-18T17:08:27
Linux version 2.6.32-24-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:24:04 UTC 2010
Compiled with GCC 4.4.3
Qt runtime version: 4.6.2
Qt compilation version: 4.6.2
Addressing mode: 32-bit
MemTotal: 1220572 kB
MemFree: 24364 kB
SwapTotal: 261112 kB
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
cpu MHz : 1792.389
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Kernel modules: sisfb
stellarium
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "/home/lee/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/lee/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "/home/lee/.stellarium/config.ini"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
Cache directory is: "/home/lee/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "en_US"
Application language is "en_US"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/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 "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...
Downloaded 0 files (0 kbytes) in a session of 42.409 sec (average of 0 kB/s + 0 files from cache (0 kB)).

Does this help?

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Stellarium has been updated to 0.10.5, both menus appeared when i tested it.

[Don Weiss (henrodon)]

That's great, but I'm having trouble installing. I checked my Synaptic Package Manager and it still showed 0.10.4 so I went to the Stellarium website and downloaded 0.10.5. I tried adding that to the Package Manager but it doesn't show up in the list when I search for Stellarium. Is there some other way it's to be installed?

I'm pretty much an Ubuntu newbie.

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

I've installed 0.10.5 from Ubuntu Software Center on Ubuntu 10.10. Due to lack of icons and almost invisible texts, it's unusable.
Screenshot attached.
I'm changing bug status to new.

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

@mmiicc You could try starting with the --safe-mode option and see if that helps (uses older version of OpenGL, which may work better with some graphics cards / drivers.

Your screenshot looks like what I get when I use the open source ATI drivers. If this is indeed the case, you can use the proprietary driver and it might work better (works for me). However I find that suspend / resume then stops working because the ATI proprietary driver isn't working for that. Ho hum.

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

Matthew, many thanks.
In fact, I use open source ATI drivers. Starting with --safe-mode fixes invisible icons and text.