stellarium applet crashes at startup on a ibm t42 with karmic

Binary package hint: stellarium

 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/xaver/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "/home/xaver/.stellarium"
  1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/xaver/.stellarium/config.ini"
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 15 15:25:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: stellarium 0.10.2-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.63-generic
SourcePackage: stellarium
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686