F10 and picasa (on F9 too)

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

lux wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia 
> <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     I installed Picasa using the a Google repo. When I try to search,
>     appears a message saying that Google-testing is invalid:
>     Bad id for repo: google testing, byte =   6
> 
>     The repo was defined as described in
>     http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/testrepo.html
> 
>     And Picasa itself is not starting: I receive the following message:
>     [mgarcia at d510 ~]$ picasa
>     /usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 24613 Segmentation fault
>     "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so <http://check_dir.exe.so>
>     /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 24716 Segmentation fault
>     "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export
>     HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\\
>     [mgarcia at d510 ~]$
> 
> 
> Identical problem on F9 (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686)
> picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386
> the errors are:
> 
> wine-pthread[9526]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bf936430 error 4
> wine-pthread[9769]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bffb8af0 error 4
> wine-pthread[9780]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfd43880 error 4
> wine-pthread[9789]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfc847c0 error 4
> wine-pthread[9798]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bffbd2c0 error 4
> wine-pthread[9691]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bffd7310 error 4
> wine-pthread[9899]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfad75e0 error 4
> wine-pthread[9805]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfef1260 error 4
> 
> Funy thing is
> picasa can run as a root user
> 
> I follwoed some tip to set
> 
> vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
> 
> in /etc/sysctl.conf
> hope some offer a fix
> 

Hi

I removed the Picasa installed with yum and used the rpm available 
instead. And now is working fine.

I had the impression that yum was picking the stable repo and not the 
testing one.

Regards

Marcelo