View Full Version : [ubuntu] Google earth server login fails when running as a normal user
dukeinlondon
March 1st, 2009, 03:14 PM
I've installed google earth 5 in my home directory (as my regular user i.e. no sudo) and it starts up fine but if I run it without sudoing, it just sits there displaying no data whatsoever. In the file menu, I have the option to do a server login, but that doesn't work
Sudoing makes it work, it displays the start-up tip and the globe and the file menu has an option to do a server log-out.
Any idea what could cause the server login to fail in this configuration ?
Thanks
m3peters
April 11th, 2009, 02:43 AM
For the record, the solution I found to this problem is documented at Thread 206711 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206711).
In short, you need to recursively set the owner of ~/.config/Google and ~/.googleearth:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.config/Google
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.googleearth/
For me, somehow ~/.config/Google was owned by root while ~/.googleearth was owned by me.
Symptoms of this issue are: all Options in the Options Dialog are greyed out, a black (blank) sky with no Earth, and of course, as originally posted, an inability to log into the Earth server.
I apologize for resurrecting this.
andersja
April 21st, 2009, 11:05 PM
Thanks for sharing the fix! I had the same problem!
shane2peru
April 22nd, 2009, 11:39 PM
For the record, the solution I found to this problem is documented at Thread 206711 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206711).
In short, you need to recursively set the owner of ~/.config/Google and ~/.googleearth:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.config/Google
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.googleearth/
For me, somehow ~/.config/Google was owned by root while ~/.googleearth was owned by me.
Symptoms of this issue are: all Options in the Options Dialog are greyed out, a black (blank) sky with no Earth, and of course, as originally posted, an inability to log into the Earth server.
I apologize for resurrecting this.
No apology necessary. Thanks this fixed my problem too!
Shane
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