Just ran into that today, looks like a locale specific issue. My locale is set to en_IN and the coredump looks like this with debug mode build.
0xb7318c53 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7318c53 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0xb7331aa0 in strftime_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7331f63 in strftime_l () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb733159f in strftime () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #4 0x081f6c60 in StelLocaleMgr::get_printable_date_local () #5 0x081a001d in StelUI::updateTopBar () #6 0x081a08f8 in StelUI::gui_update_widgets () #7 0x081a11b2 in StelUI::update () #8 0x0815eb65 in StelApp::update () Quick workaround: bash$ LANG=C stellarium A patch is in order, because I confirm the bug in the 0.9.x release of Stellarium - maybe when I get back from Ladakh. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs