stellarium wont start just flashes splash screen then goes off

[cabz]

I have tried to start this program in a fresh edubuntu install and it just flashes the slpash screen and then goes right back to the desktop.I have tried an uninstall and reinstall and still have the same issue .
cabz@cabz-Presario-M2000-PX392UA-ABA:~$ stellarium
Using default graphics system specified at build time: raster
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[ This is Stellarium 0.11.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Writing log file to: "/home/cabz/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/cabz/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "/home/cabz/.stellarium/config.ini"
OpenGL supported version: "1.3 Mesa 7.11"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL"
Cache directory is: "/home/cabz/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "en_US"
Application language is "en_US"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 65 / 65 planet orbits from "/usr/share/stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
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
Segmentation fault
cabz@cabz-Presario-M2000-PX392UA-ABA:~$

This is the mesage I get when running from terminal " segemntaion fault"

I tried mv ~/.stellarium ~/.stellarium_old and it does not work still.

[barrykgerdes (barrygastro)]

Are you sure this is a bug.

Have you built Stellarium from the current source?

I have no bother compiling and running in Ubuntu and can't reproduce the problem
Looking at the point the log crashes it appears to be a problem with the loading of star data from the skycultures. Maybe your name.fab is corrupt
other places to check are the ssystem.ini and config.ini for errors.

Barry

[cabz (cabz)]

I have no clue if this a bug or not , I am a major newb to linux . the issue I am haveing is on a fresh install of edubuntu that came with stellarium on it , so I have no idea how anything could be corupted. I have seen several older bugs reported in older ubuntu versions that have had this issue and where not resloved that i could find . so i posted this as a bug as did others before me.

[barrykgerdes (barrygastro)]

Hi

Pre-built Stellarium applications generally need to be built for the version of linux that you are using.
I don't have edubuntu so I can't check.
My versions of linux are Ubuntu 10.4 and 11.10 The Stellarium application supplied with Ubuntu is 0.11.1 and it runs OK on my platform from the download.
However I run 0.11.2 current source 5135 compiled with the standard dependancies
Most of the earlier problems were with screen drivers that were not suitable for Radeon displays and the bug reports became redundant after later source development but have not been closed as they should have been when the problems were overcome.

Barry Gerdes
Beaumont Hills Observatory
S 33' 41' 44" E 150' 56' 32"

> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:18:14 +0000
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> Subject: [Bug 916536] Re: stellarium wont start just flashes splash screen then goes off
>
> I have no clue if this a bug or not , I am a major newb to linux . the
> issue I am haveing is on a fresh install of edubuntu that came with
> stellarium on it , so I have no idea how anything could be corupted. I
> have seen several older bugs reported in older ubuntu versions that have
> had this issue and where not resloved that i could find . so i posted
> this as a bug as did others before me.
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[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

First, subscribing the whole Stellarium team to the bug activity was an improper move. Don't do it again, please. I have un-subscribed the team, so if any team members are interested in following this, they should subscribe themselves manually.

Second, try to install some other OpenGL applications such as Blender or Google Earth or NASA World Wind and see if they crash, too. If they do, the issue is with your graphics card's driver, not in Stellarium.

Third, check what is your graphics card model and see if there are any problems with it on Linux (i.e. search the Web). I vaguely remember seeing recently a bug report for the Linux drivers of an Intel card.

Fourth, what is your Ubuntu version and how did you get Stellarium 0.11.1? As far as I know, it's available for Ubuntu only through a PPA. Have you tried the default version for your distribution and does it work?

[cabz (cabz)]

I am running the downloaded copy of edubuntu 11.10 with stellarim version 0.11.1 that came with it .
I am very sorry if I posted this incorectly , as I am very new to this OS I didnt realize it would be an issue. Is celestia another open gl program? if so I get a segemtation error and a shut down on it as well. I will try google earth and see what it does . I am useing an intel 852/ graphics card if that helps it tried to search for updated lin ux drivers to no avail.
the version of stellarium i have came with my edubuntu , is trhere an earlier versoin I can try out?.

again sorry if this post / report has caused anyone any issues again newb error.

[cabz (cabz)]

I have installed and run google earth on my laptop , it appears to work well. as far as graphics card goes I have a
 Intel® 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2 I did a search and found varoius issues but none I cold say where related to this issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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