Google earth on FC6

[Sultan Saini]

No, it's never worked for me. The behaviour has always been the same -
splash screen comes up, cpu usage climbs to a steady 50% (on both cores),
but no error messages of any kind. It has never hung up the system, though.
CTRL-C kills the process easily.

-S.

On 6/8/07, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> Sultan Saini wrote:
> > Direct rendering was already enabled - it was one of the first checks I
> did
> > - I should have included that info in my original post.
> >
> > In any case, I added the modules section, as you suggested, but with no
> > luck.
>
> OK, so out of dis-belief, I went and fired up googleearth myself.  And
> guess what!  It hung!  Mouse still worked, but the keyboard was dead.
>
> I SSHed in from another computer and discovered that googleearth-bin was
> eating all the CPU it could.  So, I issued a "telinit 3" to shutdown X.
>
> No dice (at least nothing visible happened).  So, I killed
> googleearth-bin with a "kill -9" and the whole computer came to a
> standstill!   Time to re-boot.  (Arrrrrgh, I hate it when that happens!)
>
> Being a glutton for punishment, after the computer rebooted (and I got
> the wireless up again, took about 13 minutes!) I fired up googleearth
> again.  This time it worked!  Go figure.  So, it does work, just not
> reliably.  As I recall, my laptop had an uptime of over 9 days before
> the hang, so I suspect something in the X11 environment gets corrupted
> after a while causing googleearth to go crazy.
>
> Does it work for you either after restarting X or after a reboot?
>
> Even once?
>
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cheers....
....sultan
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