On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It all came down to missing i686 libs: > > http://bigjim-network.be/2009/06/24/google-earth-on-fedora-11-64-bit/ If those libraries were linked the normal way, by having ld.so set them up when Google Earth launched, the missing libraries would have prevented it from launching at all. You wouldn't have gotten any kind of crash, it just wouldn't execute. My guess is that the missing libraries are normally loaded "manually," that is, with some of Google Earth's own code calling the dynamic library manipulation functions and setting up the link itself. That's usually done to enable one to choose one of several alternative libraries, or to add extra features that don't come built in. Native web browser plugins are handled that way too. If that were the case, quite likely the reason that you got the segfault is that that manual link failed completely because the libraries were not to be found, but with the client code that expected those libraries to be linked failing to check if the library load was successful. If my theory is correct, then Google needs a bug report. I don't have a clue how you'd file one. But then, as they say, WHAT NOW is your friend? Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
