Google Earth
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jan 12 16:53:19 UTC 2008
Steve Siegfried wrote:
> Antonio M wrote:
>> and after latest (this morning) Xorg updates my GoogleEarth didn't
>> work any longer: I am waiting that Firefox will allow me to download
>> again GE and re-install (not sure which version is on my PC...) to
>> see.
>> Any way, I think that the problem is connected to drivers and not to GE.
>> I am using nv driver, now I have same problem, user is immediately
>> loggesd out as soon as it starts GE...
>>
>
>
> So if I've got this right, you:
> 1- installed GoogleEarth and it worked
> 2- updated Xorg stuff and GoogleEarth stopped working.
>
> Lemme guess... you're running prelink, right?
>
> There's something about the code in GoogleEarth that doesn't play well
> with prelink... especially after upgrading libraries.
>
> Try this:
> 1- turn off (or remove) prelink
> 2- remove GoogleEarth and re-install
> 3- do an upgrade that includes libraries likely to be used by GE
>
> Think you'll find that without prelink messing about in your bin and
> lib directories, that GoogleEarth survives an upgrade.
>
> You can pretty much prove that prelink is the culprit here by doing the
> above 3 steps and then:
> 4- reinstall prelink
> 5- do another upgrade of some kind that includes libraries likely
> to be used by GE
> 6- leave the machine up for 48 hours so prelink can do it's stuff
> 7- invoke GoogleEarth
>
>
> Hope this helps,
FWIW, prelink is used here and google earth runs just fine....
If one wants to get a list of libraries used by google earth then all one
needs to do is "ldd googleearth-bin" in the directory where GE is installed.
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