Google Earth - Help!

Hey Guys,

When I open Google earth it appears on screen for a few seconds then closes unexpectedly?

When I have launched GE from CLI the text below appears, can anyone help?

Thanks!!

Warning, xpress200 detected. *******************************WARN_ONCE***************************** File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 471 Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag ************************************************************************* googleearth-bin: r300_emit.c:403: r300EmitArrays: Assertion `((inputs_bitset)[((_TNL_ATTRIB_COLOR0) / (sizeof (GLuint) * 8))] & (1 << ((_TNL_ATTRIB_COLOR0) % (sizeof (GLuint) * 8))))' failed. Google Earth has caught signal 6.

Stacktrace from glibc: ./googleearth-bin [0x804f403] ./googleearth-bin [0x804f916] [0xb7f26420] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(abort+0x101) [0xb70d0a01] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__assert_fail+0xee) [0xb70c810e] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(r300EmitArrays+0x126d) [0xae5ea51d] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so [0xae5dc901] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so [0xae5dd6bb] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(_tnl_run_pipeline+0x153) [0xae670f33] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(_tnl_draw_prims+0x431) [0xae6714b1] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so [0xae669d9c] /home/karl/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext11genericDrawEiiiii+0x575) [0xb3e2cc25] /home/karl/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext12drawMultipleENS0_20IG_GFX_DRAW_MULTIPLEEiii+0xeb) [0xb3e4678b] ./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igGeometryAttr1_55applyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0xc5) [0xb3884b25] ./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttr5applyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0x48) [0xb3881448] ./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttr5applyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0x2f) [0xb388142f] /home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17SceneGraphManager14drawSceneGraphEPN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttrES5_+0x39) [0xb3ba0c59] /home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17SceneGraphManager4drawEv+0xce) [0xb3ba2e7e] /home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext6renderEb+0xae4) [0xb3a1ae54] /home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext4drawEbb+0x1c4) [0xb3a1d734] /home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl4drawEv+0x166) [0xb3bba2f6] ./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget10paintEventEP11QPaintEvent+0x2a) [0xb67aeb6a] ./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render11RenderTimer4fireEv+0x1a) [0xb67bbfba] ./libbase.so(_ZN5earth5Timer8dispatchEv+0x2d) [0xb707003d] ./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application18CommandCustomEvent8dispatchEv+0x23) [0xb728f483] ./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application11customEventEP6QEvent+0x3a) [0xb7280e4a] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent+0xed) [0xb7d629a1] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x1d3) [0xb775b4ab] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xb4) [0xb7762020] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x62) [0xb7d54eda] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData+0x247) [0xb7d569db] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjecti+0x23) [0xb7d56c4f] ./libQtCore.so.4 [0xb7d74a9a] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x176) [0xb6bf7cc6] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xb6bfb083] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x6e) [0xb6bfb63e] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x53) [0xb7d7461b] ./libQtGui.so.4 [0xb77c9cf2] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop13processEventsE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x2d) [0xb7d54861] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0xc7) [0xb7d54a07] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv+0x98) [0xb7d56cf0] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication4execEv+0x25) [0xb775af75] ./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x380) [0xb728d570] ./googleearth-bin(main+0x2ba) [0x8050bea] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb70ba450] ./googleearth-bin [0x804f231]

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 are now being written to this text file:

/home/karl/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-FF95045F.txt

This bug report will be sent to Google automatically next time you run Google Earth. Its data, which contains no personal information, will help us correct problems without bothering you further. If you would rather this info not be transmitted, please delete the above file before running the program again. If you want bug reports to NEVER be sent, remove the above 'crashlogs' directory's read/write permissions.

Well, the output clearly says it's a bug within Google Earth and that the output should be reported to them.

There should be a lot of debug info in that file specified by the program. File that info to google and I bet they'd be happy..

I am having the same problem along with the same message. The message says that the info will be sent to google the next time I try to run it. In the meantime, is there a way for me to fix it?

This has been posted earlier under thread "Google Earth Crashes". Apparently no fix yet available. If you have not done so, it might help to post a bug report with Google. Several of us have already posted bug reports there, but a few more cannot hurt.

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I uninstalled it and removed any left over directories. Then I reinstalled with apt-get. It works fine UNTIL I set a bunch of place markers. Then it starts shutting down immediately after starting.

Problem fixed!! For now anyway.

Without uninstalling my current version of google earth, which I installed with "sudo apt-get install googleearth" and which was version 4.2, I installed "sudo apt-get install googleearth-4.3".

So far it is running perfectly on my system.

[I]arv@arv-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install googleearth-4.3 [sudo] password for arv: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package googleearth-4.3 arv@arv-desktop:~$ [/I]

So, that obviously does not work.

It worked for me. But I do seem to remember that at one point it did not work. I think I needed to do sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. Are you sure you have the correct sources in your list?

Yeah I am having this same problem. Google Earth 5.0. It starts to open, I see the "Tips" pop up then it just shuts down in flames (do to my burn graphics). Been looking for a fix for a while. I'm going to try and uninstall and reinstall it see what happens, so far it won't work for me.