Google Earth

[Texstar]

@AS -- here's the output of the command ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.*

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    663 Feb 12 00:32 /usr/lib/libGL.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 Feb 12 00:32 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Feb 12 00:32 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.260.19.29*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 758308 Feb 12 00:32 /usr/lib/libGL.so.260.19.

^^ Looks like the .29 is up there... (cause of mismatch)

... where are the symbolic links to libGL.so ?

Ummm... I'm not sure I understand your question. How do I search for those symbolic links?

This isn't right because /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 should not be linked to libGL.so.260.19.29* unless you once ran the Nvidia installer downloaded from their website instead of using the dkms packages in our repo at some point in the past.

I would delete /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and whatever the last one is as it is cut off. /usr/lib/libGL.so.260.19.

Then I would install libmesagl1-7.5.2-1pclos2010.i586.rpm from Synaptic.

After than I would remove

dkms-nvidia-current
dkms-nvidia96xx

x11-driver-video-nvdia173
x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx
x11-driver-video-current

nvidia173-doc-html
nvidia96xx-doc-html

Then go back and install dkms-nvidia-current and x11-driver-video-current.

From here I could go into the PCLinuxOS Control Center -> Hardware ->Configure Video card and select the video card again to it can relink back to the proper GL libs.

Goodluck.

[plankton172]

This isn't right because /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 should not be linked to libGL.so.260.19.29* unless you once ran the Nvidia installer downloaded from their website instead of using the dkms packages in our repo at some point in the past.

Texstar,

You are an excellent detective! I have no choice but plead "guilty" to the above deduction. Actually, the evidence was already stated in my message of introduction to this forum. I am really sorry -- I had no idea back then of the future consequences of my adventurism. Lesson definitely learned.

... delete /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and whatever the last one is as it is cut off. /usr/lib/libGL.so.260.19.
...install libmesagl1-7.5.2-1pclos2010.i586.rpm from Synaptic.
...remove:

dkms-nvidia-current
dkms-nvidia96xx

x11-driver-video-nvdia173
x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx
x11-driver-video-current

nvidia173-doc-html
nvidia96xx-doc-html

...go back and install dkms-nvidia-current and x11-driver-video-current.
...go into the PCLinuxOS Control Center -> Hardware ->Configure Video card and select the video card again to it can relink back to the proper GL libs.

It is a sunny Monday morning here in Manila as I start work at the office. I will have to do what you recommend wrote later tonight and will update this space of the results.

Thank you kindly,
plankton172

[plankton172]

I am pleased to report that after doing Texstar's advised steps, Google Earth now launches in my computer... thank you very much!  

HOWEVER, when Google Earth is running, there is a very noticeable slowdown in my system. Everything lags, even the mouse pointer. My computer has AMD Athlon II X4 processor @ 2.9Ghz +  4GB of DDR3 RAM + Palit GF 9800GT video card. I went to Google Earth's options and restored all to the default settings, but the slowdown is still there. In bringing up the System Activity screen (CTRL+ESC) I saw Google Earth getting 75% to 80% of the CPU. As seen in the screenshot below, it's even using 90+ percent!



I searched the threads and saw this was reported by another user here the only difference is, my computer doesn't crash... only slows down. I did the tips stated there but it doesn't seem to help.

Any suggestions?

[shrinivas]

KDE updated through PASS servers.
After a few seconds of Googleearth, the whole system became unresponsive, neither keyboard nor mouse would work.
I had to hard-reboot. 

[frapelli]

Unfortunately my googleeart still doesn' work, even if I followed step by step Texstar's advice.

The output for ls -l /usr/lib/*/libGL.* is

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[francesco@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/*/libGL.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 mar 19 00:10 /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 838556 mar 16 05:35 /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 mar 20 21:55 /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 448636 gen 12  2010 /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 mar 20 21:57 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.260.19.36*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 758308 feb 16 07:14 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.260.19.36*
and for rpm -qa|grep nvidia

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[francesco@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep nvidia
dkms-nvidia-current-260.19.36-2pclos2011
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-260.19.36-2pclos2011
From konsole as user there is no hint, just a "Killed" after I kill the program, and as root, after I kill the program I get:

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[root@localhost francesco]# googleearth
googleearth-bin: xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Asserzione `ret != inval_id' fallita.
Google Earth has caught signal 6.

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 have been written
 to this text file:

    /root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4d87cc94.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report will to Google.


But I suspect the "crash" is my killing the program.

Thanks