GE problems

Thu Nov 1 16:47:04 UTC 2012

On Thursday 01 November 2012 11:52:28 Tom H did opine:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2012 22:11:56 Tom H did opine:
> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:08:56 NoOp did opine:
> >>>> On 10/31/2012 02:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>>> So what is the approved & recommended way to proceed?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Download the .deb and install:
> >>>> 
> >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth
> >>>> http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html
> >>> 
> >>> I believe that is probably what synaptic has pulled in twice now.
> >>> 
> >>> gene at coyote:~/linuxcnc/configs/sim/axis$ ls -l
> >>> /var/cache/apt/archives
> >>> 
> >>> |grep googleearth -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17689184 2010-01-23 13:09
> >>> 
> >>> googleearth_5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root
> >>> root 10738 2010-02-03 02:04 googleearth-package_0.5.7_all.deb
> >>> 
> >>> Which supposedly is installed.
> >> 
> >> googleearth_5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1_i386.deb is the medibuntu
> >> package (see [1]), which has nothing to do with script that you're
> >> running as part of googleearth-package.
> >> 
> >> 1. http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/googleearth.html
> > 
> > Ok, puzzle piece 2:
> > 
> > It runs just fine from the command line, without a location argument.
> > Run from the menu after I fix the link in properties from the
> > system->prefs-
> > 
> > >main menu which has a placeholder for an argument, a '%f', it starts
> > >to
> > 
> > light up but goes away when I click on the close tip button. Without
> > an argument, or the argument placeholder in the menu link, it works.
> > That however is somewhat resembling of the teats on a boar hog. Would
> > this be a bug? But at least it runs which is more than it was doing.
> > Thanks.
> 
> You're welcome but this has nothing to do with the googleearth-package
> with which you were having installation problems and which would've
> installed a more recent version of the app:
> 
> $ \sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin --info

This command line is not applicable to a 10.04 LTS system

> Identification: Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.3.2197
> Target directory: GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer
> Uncompressed size: 99752 KB
> Compression: bzip2
> Date of packaging: Tue May 17 00:42:06 PDT 2011
> Built with Makeself version 2.1.5 on linux-gnu
> Build command was: ./data/linux/makeself/makeself.sh \
>     "--bzip2" \
>     "./GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer" \
>     "GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-1.run" \
>     "Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.3.2197" \
>     "./setup.sh"
> Script run after extraction:
>      ./setup.sh
> GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer will be removed after
> extraction $

Pokeing around with mc, I found a link in /usr/bin/google-earth that points 
to a much newer /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth, but it will not run 
with OpenGL.  It generates two different .txt files depending on whether 
you click 'yes' or 'no' to its request to switch to DirectX.  Since this 
ain't winderz, the 'no' trace:
Major Version 6
Minor Version 2
Build Number 0002
Build Date Apr 14 2012
Build Time 01:09:37
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 32
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1351785372
Up Time 17.2613

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc645b)[0x1d645b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc66a3)[0x1d66a3]
[0xa55400]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xd9e5f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0xd9ea2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x170)[0xd9e560]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xd9e5f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0xd9ea2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x5c)[0xd8c16c]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xdef)
[0x19dacf]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x334)
[0x1dd8c4]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x7d2)
[0x1e4e22]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc511b)[0x1d511b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x249)[0x1d56f9]
./googleearth-bin[0x804878b]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x167dbd6]
./googleearth-bin[0x80486d1]

And just for completeness, the yes trace:

Major Version 6
Minor Version 2
Build Number 0002
Build Date Apr 14 2012
Build Time 01:09:37
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 32
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1351785391
Up Time 6.93972

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc645b)[0x1ef45b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc66a3)[0x1ef6a3]
[0xc4c400]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0x11115f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0x1111a2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x170)[0x1111560]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0x11115f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0x1111a2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x5c)[0x10ff16c]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xdef)
[0x1b6acf]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x334)
[0x1f68c4]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x7d2)
[0x1fde22]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc511b)[0x1ee11b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x249)[0x1ee6f9]
./googleearth-bin[0x804878b]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xc63bd6]
./googleearth-bin[0x80486d1]

All the extra things that link asked for that someone gave me yesterday are 
installed, but the video driver, for an NV96 card, is nouveau.  According 
to synaptic, its version 1.0.0.15+git2010219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5, from the 
original, over a year ago install, and I've never been offered an update, 
so there is not a package for it in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Other than using more cpu and being slower at things like GE, this driver 
has been dead stable, unlike the nvidia drivers I used on PCLos, and an 
update has never left me with an unbootable system, which is a heck of a 
lot more than I can say for the nvidia drivers, their update screwups have 
resulted in several unscheduled re-installs.  I have drives enough I 
haven't lost a heck of a lot, but its still a 2 week long PIMA by the time 
I get it all copied over and working again.

Further kicking of the tires, it seems that the odd install location did 
not find its way into the ldconfig.  I created a google.conf file in 
/etc/ld.so.conf.d with a line "/opt/google/earth/free/" in it, then ran 
ldconfig -v and those libs are now there in an ldconfig -v.  But no change, 
in that it still demands DirectX, AND THIS ISN'T WINDOWS.

Thanks for any additional help, and thanks for the help so far.  Its 
appreciated.  But we also aren't solving the problem.

Cheers, Gene
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