I got the exception below and the program hanged (not crashed):
Load star names from C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Stellarium\data/sky_cultures/western/star_names.fab
The semaphore GlCoreInit is done
The semaphore GlInit is done
Loading Cities data...
Waiting for UiInit for another 11000 ms
...no position data for Baxendell's unphotographable nebula 7088
...no position data for Pelican nebula I5067 I5067, 70
...no position data for ?³ Cyg nebula I1318 Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "45÷10"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.StelUtility.getDecAngle(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.dialog.ConfigDialog.loadCities(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.dialog.ConfigDialog.createLocationConfigTab(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.dialog.ConfigDialog.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.StelUIConf.createConfigWindow(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.StelUI.initAsDisplayable(Unknown Source)
at org.stellarium.ui.StelSdl.display(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.opengl.impl.GLDrawableHelper.display(GLDrawableHelper.java:78)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas$DisplayAction.run(GLCanvas.java:288)
at com.sun.opengl.impl.GLDrawableHelper.invokeGL(GLDrawableHelper.java:194)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.maybeDoSingleThreadedWorkaround(GLCanvas.java:265)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.display(GLCanvas.java:130)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.paint(GLCanvas.java:142)
at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.update(GLCanvas.java:213)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.updateComponent(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Waiting for UiInit for another 10000 ms
Waiting for UiInit for another 9000 ms
As there is not "45÷10" in the cities.fab file (nor 45°10), it may be a platform-conversion file issue or a corrupted file issue.
In any case the error handling has been improved in order to indicate the problematic line in the file.