New to Celestia - Startup Crash

[gatesw]

Hello,

I am running Fedora 10. When I initially installed Fedora 10 Celestia worked out of the box. I recently applied a large number of system updates using yum. Now Celestia wont start. What is the best way to trace what is happening? I have an NVIDIA video card with the latest drivers. The Celestia Splash Screen comes up momentarily and then vanishes. I do not see a Celestia process running in the background afterwards. Looks like it crashes completely.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

Wess Gates

[cartrite]

If your linux kernel was one of the updates, you may need to reinstall the nvidia driver. With openSuse systems, the installation process needs to build a new kernel module. This is the way it works with openSuse. But in openSuse, the graphical interface does not even start. I need to reinstall it in text mode. I'm guessing that Fedora may fall back on the nv driver to start the graphics after a kernel update. That would hide the fact that the "nvidia" driver is not compatible with the newer "linux kernel".

There are a few users here that use a Fedora system. If what I suggested is not the cause, they may have a better idea. I've never used a Fedora system.
cartrite

[John Van Vliet]

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[gatesw]

Thank you all for the replies. According to the output of cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version I am running:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.51 Fri Apr 17 00:08:33 PDT 2009

Also, rpm -q kmod-nvidia returns:
kmod-nvidia-180.51-1.fc10.8.x86_64

Celestia was working fine with the initial Fedora 10 install around the time it was first released. I installed Celestia directly from the DVD image/repository for Fedora 10. I ran a system update earlier this year without paying any attention to which packages were to update (with the exception of the kernels). There were hundreds of packages, bug releases, security fixes etc... installed. Too many for me to go back and figure out which ones broke my Celestia (and Scilab).

I am not sure if I answered the question but I did not directly install Celestia using yum but I am rather certain that the update/system install did. I am going to see if I can follow the suggestion below and report back.

Thank you very much for the detailed information.

Wess Gates

[John Van Vliet]

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[gatesw]

Hi John,

I would like to make sure I understand your suggestions. I am running Gnome desktop. I have removed Celestia 1.5. and downloaded 1.6 source. Are you suggesting I build Celestia 1.6 with the KDE option even though I am running Gnome or that just something you did for your system?

Thanks for the help.

Wess

[John Van Vliet]

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