Google Earth displays the splash-screen, tries to open several files and hangs during startup. emerge --info: -------------- Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -msse3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -msse3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,combreloc -Wl,-O -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" LINGUAS="da en_GB de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.131/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac alsa amarok apache2 apm arts audiofile automount avi berkdb binfilter bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash bzip2 cdda cdinstall cdparanoia cdr chroot cli cpudetection crypt ctype cups dba dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss emul-linux encode ethereal exif expat fam fame fastbuild fat ffmpeg font-server fontconfig foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp fuse gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut glx gmp gnome-print grammar gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hfs iconv idn imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jfs jpeg kde kernel_linux lame lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad md5sum memlimit mhash mikmod mime mjpeg mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer musepack mysql nas ncurses nethack network nls nptl nptlonly ntfs ogg opengl oss pcre pdflib perl php png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 quicktime rar readline reflection samba scanner scp screen sdl sensord session sftp sftplogging simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl sql ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wordperfect xfs xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv xvid zlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev linguas_da linguas_en_GB linguas_de video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 96788 [details] strace of googleearth trying to start
opengl related - what is your video card, what is your driver? Cany ou please try the other driver? Are you sure dri is setup correctly?
(In reply to comment #2) > opengl related - what is your video card, what is your driver? Cany ou please > try the other driver? Are you sure dri is setup correctly? I am using a Radeon X1600XT PCIe adapter with the x11-drivers/ati-drivers, version 8.28.8. DRI is set up and working - at least glxgears gives me approx. 250 fps when running maximized on a 1280x1024 display while running eupdatedb and updatedb. If you think that I should try the xorg-provided, opensource driver, please tell me. I don't think it will make that much difference, but what do I know.
well I do not know either. This package is binary so only google knows ;) if you want to try the open source driver to get closer to the problem - feel free .
I'm experiencing the same problem. Google Earth says it's "initializing" and takes forever, using up about 100% CPU (about 80% system, 20% user). Googleearth worked well until a few weeks ago. After coming back to town there was quite a bunch of updates, including glibc and gcc-4.1.1, but not googleearth. Because of the gcc-4.1.1 update I recompiled the complete system (amd64) with emerge -eav system and emerge -eav world. Then I found out googleearth hangs. I'm using a ATI X300 (inexpensive PCIe card) with ati-drivers.
you are both on amd64? That could be a reason .. Maybe an upgrade of /usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so broke it. Try to downgrade the driver version, please.
(In reply to comment #6) > you are both on amd64? That could be a reason .. > > Maybe an upgrade of /usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so broke it. Try to > downgrade the driver version, please. > You are right, Stefan! In my case ati-drivers was still set to ~amd64 (that was needed some time ago) and I forgot to change that. Downgrading from ati-drivers-8.28.8 to version 2.27.10-r1 solved the problem! Thanks, Stefan!!!
thanks, I changed the ati-drivers depend to <x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8
