same deal if you're using the proprietary drivers with acceleration=on. Search with a slant on your vid card/driver... you may get some clues

I'm using the generic drivers provided with SUSE 10.1. Is there some similar parameter for those?

okay here's my fix:

shutdown the cups and cupsrenice daemons
/etc/init.d/cups stop
/etc/init.d/cupsrenice stop

weird, I know.. but that's what did it (tested several times). Not sure if I want to invest any time in 'why'

cheers

I have also tried installing the RPM from google's site. I am running OpenSuse 10.1 with Nvidia proprietary drivers and Xgl 3d desktop.

After successful installation, running Picasa from the K Menu does nothing.

Stopping the nice daemons had zero impact for me.

After seeing the original posted WINEDEBUG output, i checked my installation dir (turns out it gets installed into /opt/picasa) and sure enough, the windows/system32 directory doesn't appear to have write access and all files and subfolder are root-root owned and grouped. So, i changed that to users group and write permissions ...

Running WINEDEBUG=+file picasa gives me some useful output:

the first set of messages indicate it couldn't find ntdll.dll.so in /usr/local/lib/wine ... well, that clearly will not work, since it did not create a user/local/lib/wine directory!

ok, so i su'd and created a link there to point to /opt/picasa/wine/lib/wine (or something like that)

Running WINEDEBUG=+file picasa then gives me some more useful output:

wine: failed to initialize: /usr/local/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
wine: failed to initialize: /usr/local/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
wine: failed to initialize: /usr/local/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
wine: failed to initialize: /usr/local/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory

At this point, I don't have alot of time to spend on this. I don't think i am really out of memory either. Too bad. It would have been nice to run google picasa on my Suse 10.1 workstation.

*** UPDATE ***

Ok, so not quite so ready to give up ... I did some poking around on winehq.org and found this and tried it:

> ulimit -v unlimited
> WINEDEBUG=+file picasa

so this seems to resolve the initial startup problem loading ntdll.dll.so ... now i have *tons* of messages scrolling by to sort through.

As someone else also reported, it shows me the license agreement dialog box. After I accept, it simply exits, providine the WINDEBUG results already posted in a previous post.

I thought i had the permissions stuff resolved but apparently not as it can't seem to create picasa2.exe in c:\windows\system32 ... even when run as root!

<SNIP>
trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\Picasa2.exe",0x7fb1f744,(nil),(nil))
trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\Picasa2.exe" 520 0x7fb1f504 (nil))
warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"Picasa2.exe" not found in /root/.picasa/dosdevices/c:/windows
trace:file:CreateFileW L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Picasa2.exe" GENERIC_READ FILE_SHARE_READ FILE_SHARE_DELETE creation 3 attributes 0x0
trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Picasa2.exe",0x7fb1f7bc,(nil),(nil))
trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Picasa2.exe" 520 0x7fb1f574 (nil))
warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"Picasa2.exe" not found in /root/.picasa/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32
warn:file:CreateFileW Unable to create file L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Picasa2.exe" (status c0000034)
trace:file:CreateFileW returning 0xffffffff

there only appears to be a drivers subdirectory located here -- no files at all!

Oh well, i will check back to see if any resolves this problem later. Thanks and good luck to all!

Hope those tips help someone else out.