[SOLVED] Google Earth Segfaults

business_kid · 05-03-2021, 01:23 PM

I'm on the Slack64-Current iso of 2021-04-20, and stuck in the latest GE (version 7.3) because the previous one (about 10 months back) was segfaulting. I got the .deb, ran deb2targz, exploded that, and made a package; then I installed it.

Here's their script, named as googleearth & google-earth-pro

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# This script configures any environment prerequisites needed by Google Earth.
# Start Google Earth using this script rather than googleearth-bin directly.

# If you want to use an external copy of GPSBabel, you can specify it here.
# if [[ -z "$GPSBABEL" ]]; then export GPSBABEL="$(which gpsbabel)"; fi

# If DISPLAY is not set, try to autodetect a value.
if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]]; then
  echo "WARNING: DISPLAY environment variable is not set."
  x_displays=(/tmp/.X11-unix/X*)
  display="${x_displays[0]}"
  if [[ -e "$display" ]]; then
    export DISPLAY=":${display/*X/}"
    echo "        Found ${display}; setting DISPLAY=\"${DISPLAY}\"."
  else
    echo "        X11 display not detected; Google Earth may not run correctly."
  fi
fi

"$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/googleearth-bin" "$@"

and that last line always, always hangs.

Code:

bash-5.1$ google-earth-pro
/usr/bin/google-earth-pro: line 21: 13728 Segmentation fault      "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/googleearth-bin" "$@"

bash-5.1$ ./googleearth
./googleearth: line 21: 13745 Segmentation fault      "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/googleearth-bin" "$@"

 ./googleearth-bin
Segmentation fault

This time the binary does too. Nothing applicable showed in web searches except that Ubuntu-21.04 managed to screw up curl somehow. Any thoughts?

willysr · 05-03-2021, 02:57 PM

Use the one in SBo repository and it should be fine

Jan K. · 05-03-2021, 03:19 PM

I remember a thread a while back... https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ts-4175686632/

But I know nothing!

willysr · 05-03-2021, 08:41 PM

it worked, i tested already, but not for the latest version. So you must use the spesific version in SBo

business_kid · 05-04-2021, 03:05 AM

Thanks for the replies.

I went searching for an older curl package, and came across curl-7.72 in September 2020's iso of current so I installed it, and tried it on the (GE-7.3) version I had installed, before heading off for the SBo. That worked, without bother, so I stopped messing.

It seems slightly insane that a bugfix or three broke google earth, but maybe it was a bigger thing and the maintainer just bumped the version.I dunno.

business_kid · 05-06-2021, 12:23 PM

Re my last message. Allow me to unsay that.

The sun went behind a cloud, and GE started segfaulting again. The SBo version works, though. Thanks willysr.

Lenard Spencer · 05-06-2021, 04:24 PM

FWIW, if you want to use the latest google-earth, here is what you need to do:

1. Get and install https://slackware.uk/cumulative/slac...u-x86_64-2.txz from the slackware.uk cumulative repo. (I would like to see openssl10 added to SBo if possible.)

2. Download http://www.lenardspencer.net/linux/s...e-earth.tar.gz from my server. Use the DOWNLOAD_x86_64 link in the .info file to get the google-earth deb package.

This should get you running on the latest version.

NOTE TO PONCE: Matteo, you may want to grab the rest of the tarballs in that folder to merge into the -current repo as well.

business_kid · 05-07-2021, 04:36 AM

Thanks, Lenard, but unless there's some massive security thing, I'llleave well enough alone, following tye 1st law of repair:

Quote:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

There's a lot of stuff going on here at home that has me pre-occupied.

mlangdn · 05-07-2021, 06:44 AM

Thanks Lenard Spencer!

Works fine for me with your latest build. Willy's was working, but I had to give it a go.

ponce · 05-07-2021, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard Spencer

NOTE TO PONCE: Matteo, you may want to grab the rest of the tarballs in that folder to merge into the -current repo as well.

will do, thanks!

but regarding google-earth, if it still needs openssl-1.0.x it's google that has to fix its sh*t, IMHO

Paulo2 · 05-07-2021, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard Spencer

FWIW, if you want to use the latest google-earth, here is what you need to do:

1. Get and install https://slackware.uk/cumulative/slac...u-x86_64-2.txz from the slackware.uk cumulative repo. (I would like to see openssl10 added to SBo if possible.)

2. Download http://www.lenardspencer.net/linux/s...e-earth.tar.gz from my server. Use the DOWNLOAD_x86_64 link in the .info file to get the google-earth deb package.

This should get you running on the latest version.

NOTE TO PONCE: Matteo, you may want to grab the rest of the tarballs in that folder to merge into the -current repo as well.

Thank you very much

works and street view is back.

The older version 7.3.0.3832 from Sbo-git was working but street view.
Slackware 14.2 also works but street view, Google changed something in the new version that broke it.
I will try if this works on 14.2 (maybe building openssl10, I will try).

It seems that isn't need to actually install openssl10 package, google-earth.Slackbuilds will ask for it.

chrisretusn · 05-07-2021, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard Spencer

FWIW, if you want to use the latest google-earth, here is what you need to do:

1. Get and install https://slackware.uk/cumulative/slac...u-x86_64-2.txz from the slackware.uk cumulative repo. (I would like to see openssl10 added to SBo if possible.)

2. Download http://www.lenardspencer.net/linux/s...e-earth.tar.gz from my server. Use the DOWNLOAD_x86_64 link in the .info file to get the google-earth deb package.

This should get you running on the latest version.

Works, Thanks

I adapted this to my SlackBuild which uses the latest RPM package.

Of note, the permissions for the extracted libcrypto.so.1.0.0 from the openssl10-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-2.txz are 555.

This is what I added to my SlackBuild script. Note: this is not compatible with the SBo SlackBuild script.

Code:

# We need the libcrypto.so.1.0.0 library from the now removed openssl10-solibs
# package.
tar -xv -C $PKGDIR/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/google-earth-pro/ \
  -f $CWD/openssl10-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-2.txz lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 \
  --strip-components 1 --overwrite
chmod 755 $PKGDIR/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/google-earth-pro/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

Paulo2 · 05-07-2021, 06:04 PM

Slackware 14.2 is simple, just download google-earth from the .info file provided
by Lenard Spencer, run google-earth.Slackbuild and install the result package.

I think openssl10-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-2 is already the version in SW 14.2,
named as openssl-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-1_slack14.2.

Google-earth 7.3.3 has another problem, the globe doesn't appear.
It seems a problem with GL but I don't know how to solve this.
Graphic card is Intel i915.
Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE= google-earth-pro' makes it to run with
some software render which is very slow, but solves the globe problem (and street view works).

chrisretusn · 05-07-2021, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulo2

Google-earth 7.3.3 has another problem, the globe doesn't appear.
It seems a problem with GL but I don't know how to solve this.
Graphic card is Intel i915.
Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE= google-earth-pro' makes it to run with
some software render which is very slow, but solves the globe problem (and street view works).

Works here, NVIDIA graphic driver.

Paulo2 · 05-07-2021, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

Works here, NVIDIA graphic driver.

Did you try with nouveau? Here nouveau has that problem too, doesn't show the globe.
I read somewhere (maybe Arch forum, don't remember) that tip about LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=
and it solved for nouveau.

I'm running NVidia driver now. It really runs everything much better,
and fortunately doesn't crash here anymore.