Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.

[Blues_hawk]

When stellarium starts it pushes my pc (3.1ghz quad core, 8gig of ram,1gig ati Radeon HD 6570/fglrx (through hdmi) running Lubuntu/trusty 14.10) to about 12% - 6% at idle and works great...until the time/date dialog is opened. Stellarium shoing as top user in conky, it then pushes the cpu usage to between 80 and 100% on all cores and causes serious heating just sitting there. I limited the max frame rate with no change and isolated the date time dialog by trial. Only opening time/date dialog appears to be producing this error.

To duplicate: Open a time/date dialog from the left side nav bar and observe cpu usage. then close it and observe same.

Terminal output:
hawk@hawk-Aspire-X1420 ~:stellarium
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.13.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/hawk/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "4.3"
Driver version string: "4.3.12798 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005"
GL vendor is "ATI Technologies Inc."
GL renderer is "AMD Radeon HD 6570"
GL Shading Language version is "4.30"
GLSL Version Number after parsing: 4.3
GLSL version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
Cache directory is: "/home/hawk/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "en_US"
Application language is "en_US"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loading star data ...
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_5.cat": 0_0v0_2; 4963"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_5.cat": 1_0v0_2; 21598"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_5.cat": 2_0v0_2; 150090"
"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_3.cat": 3_1v0_3; 428466"
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 421 / 421 NGC name records successfully
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 338 / 338 common star names
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 4502 / 4502 scientific star names
Loading variable stars from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/gcvs_hip_part.dat"
Loaded 6886 / 6886 variable stars
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Intializing basic GL shaders...
Creating GUI ...
Loaded plugin "Satellites"
Satellites: loading catalog file: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/modules/Satellites/satellites.json"
Unable to find module called "TimeZoneConfiguration"
Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration"

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

It's very strange. Can you check Stellarium from our PPA?

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

Hi!
Okay, I added ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases and got it going. My crappy connection is less than a meg so it will be a while, maybe tomorrow after work. I'll report back asap.
Ray
     From: Alexander Wolf <email address hidden>
 To: <email address hidden>
 Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 4:27 PM
 Subject: [Bug 1426908] Re: Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.

It's very strange. Can you check Stellarium from our PPA?

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Title:
  Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.

Status in Stellarium:
  New

Bug description:
  When stellarium starts it pushes my pc (3.1ghz quad core, 8gig of
  ram,1gig ati Radeon HD 6570/fglrx (through hdmi) running
  Lubuntu/trusty 14.10) to about 12% - 6% at idle and works
  great...until  the time/date dialog is opened. Stellarium shoing as
  top user in conky, it then pushes the cpu usage to between 80 and 100%
  on all cores and causes serious heating just sitting there.  I limited
  the max frame rate with no change and isolated the date time dialog by
  trial. Only opening time/date dialog appears to be producing this
  error.

  To duplicate: Open a time/date dialog from the left side nav bar and
  observe cpu usage. then close it and observe same.

  Terminal output:
  hawk@hawk-Aspire-X1420 ~:stellarium
  Using default graphics system specified at build time:  raster
  -------------------------------------------------------
  [ This is Stellarium 0.12.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
  [ Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Fabien Chereau et al          ]
  -------------------------------------------------------
  Writing log file to: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/log.txt"
  File search paths:
    0 .  "/home/hawk/.stellarium"
    1 .  "/usr/share/stellarium"
  Attempting to use an existing older config file.
  Config file is:  "/home/hawk/.stellarium/config.ini"
  Going to initialize the OpenGL 2 renderer
  OpenGL supported version:  "4.3.12798 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005"
  Qt GL paint engine is:  "OpenGL2"
  GL vendor is  "ATI Technologies Inc."
  GL renderer is  "AMD Radeon HD 6570"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " plainShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " textureShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorTextureShader " : "Built successfully"
  Cache directory is:  "/home/hawk/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
  Sky language is  "en_US"
  Application language is  "en_US"
  Loading Solar System data ...
  Loaded 74 / 74 planet orbits from "/home/hawk/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
  Loading star data ...
  "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_3.cat": 0_0v0_2; 4963"
  "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_3.cat": 1_0v0_2; 21598"
  "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_3.cat": 2_0v0_2; 150090"
  "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_2.cat": 3_1v0_1; 423540"
  Finished loading sta...

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

  After loading from the Stellarium PPA I got the same result. I remembered having it in my little netbook running the same system and checked for the issue there. It runs okay; uses about 50% of the poor little thing's resources just to run but doesn't show the problem. Also, I need to correct my initial report in that I am using 14.04 trusty and not 14.10 on the problem computer.

Hope This helps. Let me know if I can do anything more to help isolate it.

     From: Alexander Wolf <email address hidden>
 To: <email address hidden>
 Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 4:27 PM
 Subject: [Bug 1426908] Re: Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.

It's very strange. Can you check Stellarium from our PPA?

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Title:
  Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.

Status in Stellarium:
  New

Bug description:
  When stellarium starts it pushes my pc (3.1ghz quad core, 8gig of
  ram,1gig ati Radeon HD 6570/fglrx (through hdmi) running
  Lubuntu/trusty 14.10) to about 12% - 6% at idle and works
  great...until  the time/date dialog is opened. Stellarium shoing as
  top user in conky, it then pushes the cpu usage to between 80 and 100%
  on all cores and causes serious heating just sitting there.  I limited
  the max frame rate with no change and isolated the date time dialog by
  trial. Only opening time/date dialog appears to be producing this
  error.

  To duplicate: Open a time/date dialog from the left side nav bar and
  observe cpu usage. then close it and observe same.

  Terminal output:
  hawk@hawk-Aspire-X1420 ~:stellarium
  Using default graphics system specified at build time:  raster
  -------------------------------------------------------
  [ This is Stellarium 0.12.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
  [ Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Fabien Chereau et al          ]
  -------------------------------------------------------
  Writing log file to: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/log.txt"
  File search paths:
    0 .  "/home/hawk/.stellarium"
    1 .  "/usr/share/stellarium"
  Attempting to use an existing older config file.
  Config file is:  "/home/hawk/.stellarium/config.ini"
  Going to initialize the OpenGL 2 renderer
  OpenGL supported version:  "4.3.12798 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005"
  Qt GL paint engine is:  "OpenGL2"
  GL vendor is  "ATI Technologies Inc."
  GL renderer is  "AMD Radeon HD 6570"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " plainShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " textureShader " : "Built successfully"
  Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorTextureShader " : "Built successfully"
  Cache directory is:  "/home/hawk/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
  Sky language is  "en_US"
  Application language is  "en_US"
  Loading Solar System data ...
  Loaded 74 / 74 planet orbits from "/home/hawk/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
  Loading star data ...
  "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_3.cat": 0_0v0_2; 4963"
  "L...

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

You are running yesteryear's 0.12.4. Why not 0.13.2?

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

Probably because that's what the Ubuntu repo gave me. The one I installed last night as instructed was from the stellarium PPA and still does it. I'll have to wait till later when I get home to verify what version is now installed. Thanks for looking into it.

On March 2, 2015 9:40:01 AM EST, gzotti <email address hidden> wrote:
>You are running yesteryear's 0.12.4. Why not 0.13.2?
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>Title:
> Time/date dialog uses max resources when left open.
>
>Status in Stellarium:
> New
>
>Bug description:
> When stellarium starts it pushes my pc (3.1ghz quad core, 8gig of
> ram,1gig ati Radeon HD 6570/fglrx (through hdmi) running
> Lubuntu/trusty 14.10) to about 12% - 6% at idle and works
> great...until the time/date dialog is opened. Stellarium shoing as
> top user in conky, it then pushes the cpu usage to between 80 and 100%
> on all cores and causes serious heating just sitting there. I limited
> the max frame rate with no change and isolated the date time dialog by
> trial. Only opening time/date dialog appears to be producing this
> error.
>
> To duplicate: Open a time/date dialog from the left side nav bar and
> observe cpu usage. then close it and observe same.
>
> Terminal output:
> hawk@hawk-Aspire-X1420 ~:stellarium
> Using default graphics system specified at build time: raster
> -------------------------------------------------------
> [ This is Stellarium 0.12.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
> [ Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Fabien Chereau et al ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Writing log file to: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/log.txt"
> File search paths:
> 0 . "/home/hawk/.stellarium"
> 1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
> Attempting to use an existing older config file.
> Config file is: "/home/hawk/.stellarium/config.ini"
> Going to initialize the OpenGL 2 renderer
>OpenGL supported version: "4.3.12798 Compatibility Profile Context
>13.35.1005"
> Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
> GL vendor is "ATI Technologies Inc."
> GL renderer is "AMD Radeon HD 6570"
>Log of the compilation of builtin shader " plainShader " : "Built
>successfully"
>Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorShader " : "Built
>successfully"
>Log of the compilation of builtin shader " textureShader " : "Built
>successfully"
>Log of the compilation of builtin shader " colorTextureShader " :
>"Built successfully"
> Cache directory is: "/home/hawk/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
> Sky language is "en_US"
> Application language is "en_US"
> Loading Solar System data ...
>Loaded 74 / 74 planet orbits from
>"/home/hawk/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
> Loading star data ...
>"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_3.cat":
>0_0v0_2; 4963"
>"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_3.cat":
>1_0v0_2; 21598"
>"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_3.cat":
>2_0v0_2; 150090"
>"Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_2.cat":
>3_1v0_1; 423540"
> Finished loading star catalogue ...

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

Oh dear...I hadn't realized my emails would become comments till I came back to the site just now. I'll strip them down from here on.
 I confirmed I am now running 0.13.2 and still have the problem. I also just started from a terminal with the --restore defaults to get a clean config just to rule out any oddball setting I may have made. As I mentioned in the emails I have a netbook running the same distro that does not have the problem if it helps.

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

I updated the initial bug report to reflect the version change to cut down on confusion and here is the updated log file.

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

Here's a sysinfo output file I just made in case it's needed.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Has both computers same graphics cards?

[Blues_hawk (blues-hawk)]

No. The problem system has an ATI card using the HDMI output to a 46inch Sony TV and using proprietary ATI drivers. Only this system is effected which leads me to believe it might be hardware related. I also installed it on my wifes older Acer dual core machine and it runs without issue. That one is using proprietary Nvidia drivers in Lubuntu 14.10

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

I tried with my netbook, AMD A4, Ubuntu Mate 16.1, Stellarium 0.15.1. No issues of this kind.

Sorry, we cannot fix (most likely) driver-related issues. I hope some system update on your side has already fixed it.