Google Earth - Help!

[smirnoff76]

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(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext11gener icDrawEiiiii+0x575) [0xb3e2cc25]
/home/karl/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext12drawM ultipleENS0_20IG_GFX_DRAW_MULTIPLEEiii+0xeb) [0xb3e4678b]
./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igGeometryAttr1_55app lyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0xc5) [0xb3884b25]
./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttr5app lyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0x48) [0xb3881448]
./libIGAttrs.so(_ZN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttr5app lyEPNS_3Gfx15igVisualContextE+0x2f) [0xb388142f]
/home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17SceneGraphManager14draw SceneGraphEPN3Gap5Attrs17igDisplayListAttrES5_+0x3 9) [0xb3ba0c59]
/home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17SceneGraphManager4drawE v+0xce) [0xb3ba2e7e]
/home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext6renderEb+ 0xae4) [0xb3a1ae54]
/home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext4drawEbb+0 x1c4) [0xb3a1d734]
/home/karl/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl4drawE v+0x166) [0xb3bba2f6]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget10paintEventEP11QPai ntEvent+0x2a) [0xb67aeb6a]
./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render11RenderTimer4fireEv+ 0x1a) [0xb67bbfba]
./libbase.so(_ZN5earth5Timer8dispatchEv+0x2d) [0xb707003d]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n18CommandCustomEvent8dispatchEv+0x23) [0xb728f483]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n11customEventEP6QEvent+0x3a) [0xb7280e4a]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent+0xed) [0xb7d629a1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_hel perEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x1d3) [0xb775b4ab]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6 QEvent+0xb4) [0xb7762020]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyIntern alEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x62) [0xb7d54eda]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendP ostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData+0x247) [0xb7d569db]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication16sendPostedEv entsEP7QObjecti+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(_ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processE ventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0 x53) [0xb7d7461b]
./libQtGui.so.4 [0xb77c9cf2]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop13processEventsE6QFl agsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x2d) [0xb7d54861]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17P rocessEventsFlagEE+0xc7) [0xb7d54a07]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv+0x98) [0xb7d56cf0]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication4execEv+0x25) [0xb775af75]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n3runEv+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.

[itix]

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..

[sofasurfer]

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?

[arvevans]

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.

_._

[sofasurfer]

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.

[sofasurfer]

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.

[arvevans]

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:~$

So, that obviously does not work.

[sofasurfer]

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?

[dreamdigital]

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.