Comment 26 for bug 68724

Hi,
have the same problem with stellarium, amd64, hardy and the latest updates.
My LANG is de_DE.UTF-8 and after starting stellarium the screen gets white and only the configuration knobs are visible, such as exit and stuff.
After applying your workaround stellarium starts up normally and everything is seen as in the usual manner.

$ compiz --version
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0045 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
compiz 0.7.4

$ stellarium --version
Stellarium 0.9.1

$ stellarium
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[ This is Stellarium 0.9.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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File search paths:
 0. .stellarium
 1. /usr/share/stellarium
Config file is: .stellarium/config.ini
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Sky language is de_DE.
Application language is de_DE.
Warning can't find module called "StelUI" .
Loading Solar System data...ERROR: C/2006 P1 (McNaught): you must provide orbit_PericenterDistance or orbit_SemiMajorAxis
(loaded)
Loading star data...
Loading stars_0_0v0_1.cat: 0_0v0_1; stars: 5013
Loading stars_1_0v0_1.cat: 1_0v0_1; stars: 21999
Loading stars_2_0v0_1.cat: 2_0v0_1; stars: 151416
Loading stars_3_1v0_0.cat: 3_1v0_0; stars: 434064
ZoneArray::create( "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_4_1v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_4_1v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_5_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_5_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_6_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_6_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_7_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_7_2v0_0.cat
ZoneArray::create( "mmap:stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ): warning while loading " "stars_8_2v0_0.cat" ": file not found: stars/default/stars_8_2v0_0.cat
finished, max_geodesic_level: 3
Loading location: ..., on Earth
Loading NGC data... (13226 items loaded [3175 dropped])
Loading NGC name data...( 222 names loaded)
Loading Nebula Textures for set default...(109 textures loaded)
Loading Constellation boundary data from /usr/share/stellarium/data/constellations_boundaries.dat... (782 segments loaded)
Loading star names from /usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab
Loading star sci names from /usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab
Loading Cities data for planet Earth...(2069 cities loaded)
Localizing TUI for locale: de_DE.
Localizing TUI for locale: de_DE.
Script completed.

Greetings