2008/1/12, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Please note that I am running F9, but I agree with Ed: I had prelink running and Ge was fine, then I upgraded Xserver and GE crashed my system logging out the user. I don't know how and what to debug (note that I am not a software expert) . Where is GoogleEarth installed in Fedora??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
