Celestia segfaults on startup

[Jeroen Leeuwestein]

Binary package hint: celestia-gnome

I'm using celestia-gnome 1.5.0-1 in Ubuntu 8.04.1 (AMD64). It shows a splash screen and seems to be loading stuff, but when it tries to open the main window, it crashes with a Segmentation Fault. The output is listed below (as English as I could get it on by Dutch installation).

Maybe it matters: I have had more OpenGL-programs that segfault, but others that work just fine.

==========
Initializing ARB vertex programs . . .
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/specular_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/haze_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/bumpdiffuse_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/bumphaze_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/shadowtex_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse_texoff_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/rings_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/ringshadow_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/night_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/glossmap_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse2_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/haze2_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse_texoff2_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/specular2_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/night2_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/star_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/multishadow_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/texphong_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/texphong_alpha_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/ell_galaxy_arb.vp
All ARB vertex programs loaded successfully.
render path: 8
Segmentatiefout
==========

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Official support for Ubuntu 8.04.1 "Hardy Heron" has ended. I am unable to reproduce this issue using Celestia-gnome 1.6.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr".