Comment 4 for bug 480553

Output from running Stellarium in terminal:
$ stellarium
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[ This is Stellarium 0.10.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Writing log file to: "/home/kevin/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/kevin/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/kevin/.stellarium/config.ini"
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
Cache directory is: "/home/kevin/.cache/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "en_GB"
Application language is "en_GB"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
Loading "stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013
Loading "stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999
Loading "stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416
Loading "stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 / 13226 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
... (Comment: carries on for quite a while)
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
StelAppGraphicsScene: drawBackground needs a QGLWidget to be set as viewport on the graphics view
Downloaded 0 files (0 kbytes) in a session of 8.038 sec (average of 0 kB/s + 0 files from cache (0 kB)).
kevin@kevin-dt1b-LL:~$
I've tried installing the deb file from 9.04 which gives the same output (same version as 10.04).