Celestia Space Simulator

[Michael Miles]

JD wrote:
>
> On 09/21/2010 11:10 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
>    
>> JD wrote:
>>      
>>> On 09/21/2010 09:57 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I have recently installed Celestia Space Simulator and it worked really
>>>> well for about 10 minutes then crashed and will not start up any more.
>>>> I have removed it and re-installed it and still it starts with the
>>>> beginning banner and then crashes with no abrt warning.
>>>>
>>>> This is a beautiful sim and I am just wondering if anyone has had the
>>>> same problems with this software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It bugs me because it worked and I was flying through the universe when
>>>> I crash landed on mars, it just quit!!!
>>>>
>>>> Michael F12 x86_64
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> /I downloaded celestia-gtk-1.4.1.x86.package and ran it
>>> (as non superuser) and it installed.
>>> But it does not tell me where it installed it, and it did not flag any
>>> errors
>>> or problems.
>>> So I search my home dir and /tmp. It is not there. Ditto with Desktop.
>>> No new icon.
>>> Is this Ghost Ware? :)
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>>        
>> I am not sure.
>>
>> Here's where it came from
>> celestia.x86_64                       1.5.1-2.fc12
>> @fedora
>>
>>
>> Like I said it installed then ran no problem then just stopped.
>> When I run it from command line I get
>>
>>
>> [amiga5 at localhost ~]$ celestia
>> 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.
>> Initializing NV fragment programs . . .
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/shadow_on_rings_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/eclipse1_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/eclipse2_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/diffuse_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/bumpdiffuse_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/texphong_nv.fp
>> Loading NV fragment program: shaders/texphong_alpha_nv.fp
>> All NV fragment programs loaded successfully.
>> render path: 8
>> Floating point exception (core dumped)
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a Fedora repo sim
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>      
> OK. I installed it from fedora instead of sourceforge
> and it runs - but it is taking 99.9% of cpu.
> I am unable to do anything.
> What a monster this app is :)
>
> top - 11:43:40 up  1:57,  1 users,  load average: 2.46, 1.76, 1.37
> Tasks: 176 total,   2 running, 174 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 96.1%us,  3.9%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   2062408k total,  1991168k used,    71240k free,   260496k buffers
> Swap:  8385924k total,     2904k used,  8383020k free,  1030732k cached
>
>     PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 30805 jd        20   0  325m  65m  13m R 99.9  3.3   2:48.03 celestia
>    





Wow, talk a hungry little dude.
I have had some success running it in root but same thing but this time 
I get a abrt warning

process usr/bin/celestia killed by signal 8 (SIGFPE)

I have disabled selinux and the firewall just to see if that had any 
effect. (NIL)

This ran perfect the first and ever since the first crash it will not run.
I get the splash screen and then blank screen


Too bad because it is a very nice application for kids to explore the 
universe. Very useful for educational purposes

Michael