It seems only amd64 is affected: i have two amd64 gentoo machines and one x86 one, where it runs perfectly. ‰ googleearth Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written to this text file: /home/l29ah/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4d5304f6.txt Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.
Created attachment 261967 [details] crashlog
No, I actually get the same thing on x86. 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Created attachment 262083 [details] crashlog
Any difference with qt-bundled enabled?
Yes, USE=qt-bundled removes the problem. FWIW, in my case x11-libs/qt-*-4.6.3* happen to be installed.
I'll probably have to put a big warning there. It used to work with system Qt, but seems not anymore. Can't fix a binary package though, and upstream also probably won't care as they bundle the libs.
(In reply to comment #4) > Any difference with qt-bundled enabled? Nope.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #4) > > Any difference with qt-bundled enabled? > Nope. Too bad. I can't suggest anything else than submitting report to google/searching their forums, and include the crashlog as requested. Keep qt-bundled enabled though, so it's not dismissed as a consequence of replacing their qt libs.
I have the same problem here, but with a longer related story. I used to run google earth 5.1.3535.3218-r1 which ran perfectly beside ugly fonts. A qt-bundled flag isn't there for that version. So today I decided to give 6.0.1.2032_beta a try. It installed wothout any problems. Google earth 6.0.1.2032_beta started and was fully usable, but the fonts were unreadable small. I went through various Workarounds for that and tried some unmerging and reemerging. I didn't get the fonts fixed. During my whole tries (including deleting /opt/googleearth and ~/.googleearth after unmerging, then reemerging) the version 6.0.1.2032_beta remained usable. It did'nt crash. My last try to fix it somehow, was the idea to remove whole ~/.config/Google to have a cleaner environment. After that 6.0.1.2032_beta didn't start anymore. The splash screen shows up, the main window and the "Hints at startup"-window appeared for a second, then it crashed. I wanted to go back to stable 5.1.3535.3218-r1 but that is not possible anymore because of the fetch restriction. (Should get out of the Portage Tree, cause it is not emergeable anymore) So I tried it with the other 5.2 unstable version but with the same crashing as described abve on startup. Both times with USE +qt-bundled. Tries with USE -qt-bundled were not sucessful too. So now I am stucked without any working googleearth for the moment. What I find somehow strange is that 6.0.1.2032_beta worked well, with the existing ~/.config/Google directory from the previously installed 5.1.3535.3218-r1 The Crashing began after removing that directory. To finish the long story, here is my emerge --info and the google crash report:
Created attachment 265323 [details] Emerge Info
Created attachment 265325 [details] google crashlog
I have been having this problem for several months. I tried doing strace googlearth to try to diagnose the cause of the problem, but there is nothing in the strace that indicates that anything is wrong.
As a workaround for the startup issue, I found that I had to add the line: enableTips=false to the [General] section in the googleEarthPlus.conf file in ~/.config. So it runs, but the fonts remain worst ugly.
That file does not appear to exist on my system. Is there any chance that you could attach it and state the path from ~/?
Created attachment 265763 [details] Google earth conf file as requested Of course, the Path is: ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf and it looks like attached. But I could imagine that you don't have that file, because Google earth doesn't even get to a point where the file is needed. If you are missing that file or folder, then Google Earth will definitely make them on the first startup. If it crashes on your system before it needs that file, it will not help you if you put it there manually, I guess. But give it a try.
I also find that 6.0.1.2032_beta crashes as described above. However, I have found that it works fine with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 in the environment. That suggests some conflict between a Mesa dri library (or some library it depends on) and the libraries that the googleearth binary was built with.
Another workaround: - Install as normal user the googleearth bin in distfiles, then copy to /opt and chown -R root It seems the emerge ebuild does something wrong. Perhaps this config thing LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 ?
(In reply to comment #17) > Another workaround: > - Install as normal user the googleearth bin in distfiles, > then copy to /opt and chown -R root > > It seems the emerge ebuild does something wrong. Perhaps > this config thing LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 ? I suppose it's because the ebuild removed the bundled libGLU.so.1 library. In the new 6.0.2.2074 version it's no longer removed, so please try to ugprade and report if there are any improvements, and whether LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 still makes some difference. On my Intel graphics laptop I see no difference with and without the flag and with and without the bundled library. On my radeon-powered desktop the flag improved performance tremendously in 6.0.1, but I couldn't test 6.0.2 yet to see if keeping the bundled lib has the same effect.
(In reply to comment #13) > As a workaround for the startup issue, I found that I had to add the line: > > enableTips=false > > to the [General] section in the googleEarthPlus.conf file in ~/.config. So it > runs, but the fonts remain worst ugly. Thanks very much. That worked, indeed. I get no more crashes when starting :) By the way, that's when I have the qt-bundled USE flag active. If I deactivate it the program does not even launch, in a mostly stable amd64 box (KDE 4 and qt come from stable packages). Regarding ugly fonts, I found something when trying to change the charset selection in the program. Do you have media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi installed? In the past I had to install it to get good fonts in GoogleEarth 5.x, but I discovered that by *uninstalling* this package you get a "beautiful" font in GoogleEarth 6.0.2.2074. At least, much better than the 75 dpi fonts by Adobe if the former package is installed. I use a laptop with a resolution of 1366x768 and the screen dpi correctly and automatically set at 96 dpi by xf86-video-ati. On the other hand, I had to remove two files: "/opt/googleearth/lang/es-419.qm" and "/opt/googleearth/lang/es.qm". When the program starts in Spanish all the accented characters do not display properly. I get a hollow square instead, which is really annoying, so I prefer to launch it in English. * Would it be possible to make the package honor the LINGUAS USE flags, instead of installing all of them? * Would it be possible to add a utf-8 USE flag, or something like that, so that the ebuild converts the included language charset from ISO-8859-1 or whatever to UTF8?
(In reply to comment #19) > (In reply to comment #13) > > As a workaround for the startup issue, I found that I had to add the line: > > > > enableTips=false > > > > to the [General] section in the googleEarthPlus.conf file in ~/.config. So it > > runs, but the fonts remain worst ugly. > > Regarding ugly fonts, I found something when trying to change the charset > selection in the program. Do you have media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi installed? > In the past I had to install it to get good fonts in GoogleEarth 5.x, but I > discovered that by *uninstalling* this package you get a "beautiful" font in > GoogleEarth 6.0.2.2074. At least, much better than the 75 dpi fonts by Adobe enableTips=false work for my amd64 system too When I remove all adobe fonts, googleearth start displaying Russian letters correctly. If I remove only font-adobe-75dpi, I get menu, but other things like search field & popups on map don't displayed.
On my ~amd64 system (glibc-2.13-r2, xorg-server-1.10.1, nvidia-drivers-270.41.03), googleearth-6.0.2.2074 with USE=qt-bundled crashes unless "enableTips=false" is the LAST line in the [General] section of the config file. I originally had "enableTips=false" in the middle of the [General] section, and googleearth-6 would always crash on startup (both with and without qt-enabled USE flag). After adding a second "enableTips=false" line at the end of the [General] section, googleearth-6 would start correctly, but it would automatically remove the second entry from the config file, forcing me to edit the config file every time I wanted to run the program. After moving the "enableTips=false" line to the end of the [General] section, googleearth-6 has stopped rewriting its config file and now mostly works correctly (it still crashes with a "*** glibc detected *** ./googleearth-bin: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xf75dcd48 ***" error when I exit the program).
Here on ~amd64 googleearth has been crashing for a while during startup, too. It was solved by removing the ~/.drirc file. I'll attach it. Setting "enableTips=false" didn't help. This is on an Intel GM965 graphics card, googleearth-6.0.2.2074. PS: Running googleearth as a new user (useradd -m test, etc.) helped a lot in finding this.
Created attachment 273151 [details] ~/.drirc file that makes googleearth crash If this file is present at ~/.drirc, then googleearth crashes. My video card is an "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)".
hi, i got a crash on GE, too. i am using the GE v6.0.3.2197. after reading for me i got it working with the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1. in my box is a Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03). i've the use flag qt-bundled active and have not deleted the ~/.drirc or something.
try 7.0.2.8415-r1
