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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 an attachment (id=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