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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Cannot start Stellarium

I'm using Arch 64 bit and when I try to run Stellarium from terminal I got this message:

[smith@smith-arch ~]$ stellarium
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[ This is Stellarium 0.8.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Fabien Chereau et al         ]
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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
Aborted

And the program refused to start. I also try running it from Run Application menu, which also does nothing.

Also GNOME didn't create Stellarium shortcut in the menu.

Last edited by zodmaner (2007-07-27 13:01:10)

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: Cannot start Stellarium

Do you get the same error running as root?

And have you tried the qt4 version in AUR?

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Cannot start Stellarium

Yes, I get the same error running as root.

Haven't tried qt 4 yet and see how it goes.

UPDATE: Install qt4 and try again. Didn't work either, got the same error.

Last edited by zodmaner (2007-07-27 14:20:02)

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: Cannot start Stellarium

I had the same error with the aeolus package (AUR).  Never did track down the problem, although it works now.

Stellarium-latest works fine for me. Don't know what else to suggest apart from having a look though the forums for bad_alloc errors.  Maybe someone else using Arch64 can confirm that Stellarium actually runs.

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Cannot start Stellarium

I try out Stellarium-latest (version 0.9.0) on AUR and it works for me too. Not sure what's wrong with the one in the repositories though.

Anyway, thanks for advice/suggestions, Cotton.