Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

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On 02/16/13 16:28, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 21:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 16.02.2013 21:26, schrieb Mark LaPierre:
>>> On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>> I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64
>>>> system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by
>>>> any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that
>>>> is jonrysh)....
>>> Hey Jon,
>>>
>>> Try this.  It worked for me:
>>>
>>> /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf (a symbolic link to /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf).
>>> Removing that symbolic link, GoogleEarth starts correctly
>>
>> if this really is the reson it shows that i am right
>> to uninstall any not really used package
>>
>> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
>> 1509
>>
>> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep font | sort
>> bitmap-console-fonts-0.3-19.fc18.noarch
>> bitmap-fixed-fonts-0.3-19.fc18.noarch
>> ...
>> urw-fonts-2.4-12.fc18.noarch
>> xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-6.fc18.noarch
>> xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-10.fc18.x86_64
>>
>> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep font | sort | wc -l 29
> 
> A very good point; but I prefer to see funny characters, even when I
> can't read then than little boxes with numbers in them.  Oh well...
> 
> jon
> 
> 

My apologies if this has already been suggested but it would seem to me that perhaps he has either PATH and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH set
for his user in a different manner than the other users and ends up picking up something incompatible with google-earth.  Maybe an
unset of either or both of those variables would help.

Kevin

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