Celestia Forums

nasty error:

zvonsully@zvonpc:~$ celestia
nStars: 112521
Parent body 'TYC 5503-946-1' of 'b' not found.
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
All ARB vertex programs loaded successfully.
render path: 3
celestia: ERROR: Communication problem with celestia, it probably crashed.


it is instaled from the debian packages
What can I do?

zvonSully wrote:nasty error:

zvonsully@zvonpc:~$ celestia
nStars: 112521
Parent body 'TYC 5503-946-1' of 'b' not found.
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
All ARB vertex programs loaded successfully.
render path: 3
celestia: ERROR: Communication problem with celestia, it probably crashed.


it is instaled from the debian packages
What can I do?

If you provide NO information about your setup, you are causing only work to people and cannot expect any help.

-- What is you graphics card: ATI? Which model? Radeon 9200? Which driver, which XFree86 or Xorg?
-- What is your celestia version?
-- Is this the KDE version of celestia?
-- what qt-libs, what KDE version?


Bye Fridger

I believe render path three is the "OpenGL vertex programs" path.

This suggests that you're trying to use buggy OpenGL drivers.

Edit celestia.cfg and remove the # that's in front of the line


It'll disable render path 3.

Restore the # when you've installed better drivers.