Google Earth not working after pacman -Su

nirvanix · 2007-08-19 19:37:43

I did a pacman -Su today (Aug 19), and now I can no longer run Google Earth. Even when I try to run it from the console I don't get a lot of feedback. The splash screen comes up and says it's initializing - that's it.

The system upgrade contained new versions of gtk2, glib2, and xorg. Before I try to rip things out, has anyone else experienced this problem? Google Earth was working before the upgrade.

PS - I tried a reinstall of Google Earth, but that didn't help.

Thanks.

Last edited by nirvanix (2007-08-19 19:51:03)

bones · 2007-08-19 23:30:19

I can confirm this problem also.

circleback · 2007-08-20 02:04:57

I also have the same problem.

JaDa · 2007-08-21 17:49:49

same here ......

FeatherMonkey · 2007-08-21 18:07:46

I have to say I caught this thread and installed it, runs fine for me.

All updated everything as mentioned above they have been updated, tried with both the ck kernel and the arch one just in case I had it working with the ck one only but alas it works for both kernels.

Mmm... strange.

sokkalf · 2007-08-21 18:13:31

Just tried starting Google Earth - worked fine here.

shining · 2007-08-21 18:47:20

Works fine here also, though I'm on an older version : 4.0.2723-1
Wanted to try the last one in AUR, but dl.google.com is awfully slow.

Edit : 4.1.7076.4458-1 also works fine.
Are you using proprietary drivers ? (I've a laptop with intel chipset, so it's open dri ones).

Last edited by shining (2007-08-21 19:30:09)

dunc · 2007-08-21 23:27:09

Just tried it - doesn't work here either.

Edit:
Ah. That's strange. I tried it as another user, and it worked. I may have a different problem to the rest of you...

Further edit:
Yep. I did. (Probably.) When I switched to Arch, I symlinked a lot of config directories from my old homedir into my Arch one. For some reason, the GoogleEarth one got deleted, but the symlink was still there.

I don't think this is the same issue others are reporting, because I didn't even get the splashscreen.

Last edited by dunc (2007-08-22 12:22:02)

JaDa · 2007-08-22 16:58:11

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.2.180.1134..............................................................
Installing mimetypes...
Installing desktop menu entries...
Installing desktop icon...

I just tried Google Earth 4.2.180.1134

on my Box with ATI - fglrx driver it is frozen.

on my box with i810 driver need openGL 2.0

on my box with xf86-video-ati 6.6.3-3 driver need openGL 2.0

nirvanix · 2007-08-23 18:51:50

When I run glxinfo with my ATI card I get:

OpenGL version string: 2.0.6747 (8.40.4), so I have OpenGL 2 with the new fglrx driver. Maybe I should downgrade the driver to 8.39 ???

Any other ideas?

JaDa · 2007-08-23 19:44:22

It's not the ATI driver. It;s "glib2 and gtk2" !

FeatherMonkey · 2007-08-23 19:49:55

If it was those how come it doesn't affect some of us? Just a question.

It certainly seems strange I do wonder whether its a combination of the 2 though as on another distro its the same, yet a couple of us with Nvidia don't have the problem. As above someone reports good results with intel.

Last edited by FeatherMonkey (2007-08-23 19:51:16)

lumiwa · 2007-08-24 11:36:04

It doesn't work on mine (Radeon 9000, Xorg 1.3, opensource ati drivers).
When I star GE it open a window with update information. There a re a link to the new version and "quit" button. No errors, just doesn't run.

aveightor · 2007-08-24 12:23:17

I found this work around on ubuntu's forum and it works on my Ati card.
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? … ash_screen

lumiwa · 2007-08-25 00:48:23

I installed a new version and works again (the old version was really old )

matersci · 2007-08-29 12:37:19

I had the same problem and I solved it with the instructions found at aveightors link.

I just had to extract ati-driver-installer-8.27.10-x86.run to a folder, copy libGL.so.1.2 from extractfolder/arch/x86/usr/X11R6/lib, paste it at /opt/googleearth and rename it to libGL.so.1.

Now google earth starts again with no problem.

Display=:0 is not required, googleearth from console starts the application.

Lets hope next update will solve this problem.

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