I went on irc for help and alexwolf provided the following workaround which fixed the problem:
Open ~/.stellarium/config.ini and change all three instances of http://stellarium... to https://www.stellarium... After making this change stellarium works absolutely fine. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783321 Title: Stellarium crashes 15 seconds after starting up To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/stellarium/+bug/1783321/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
