John Harrington, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases, Ubuntu 12.10 reached EOL on May 16, 2014. Is this reproducible with a supported release? ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079011 Title: stellarium assert failure: nv10_state_fb.c:50: get_rt_format: Assertion `0' failed. Status in flightgear package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in stellarium package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Stellarium crashes a few seconds after displaying the startup screen with this message in terminal: nv10_state_fb.c:50: get_rt_format: Assertion `0' failed. I have an nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 video card, and have installed libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental, version 9.0-0ubuntu1. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: stellarium 0.11.3-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Nov 14 22:52:36 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-05 (224 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: stellarium UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (25 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flightgear/+bug/1079011/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp