This is apparently a longstanding problem with Google Earth. When I try to start the app, I get the following:
I've found a lot of discussion about it, but no answers. I installed the Google Earth 64-bit rpm from the Google site. This is the crash dump.
One suggestion was to use the openSuse distributed video drivers, but I can't run Mathematica with them. Any other suggestions? I would rather not go to the 32-bit version of the app.
Code:
Wed Aug 06 20:59:54:> google-earth
[0806/210000:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses()
[0806/210000:WARNING:sqlite_persistent_cookie_store.cc(504)] Cookie database version 0 is too old to handle.
[0806/210000:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1875)] Destroying invalid entry.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0806/210000:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
Google Earth has caught signal 11.
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:
/home/hattons/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-53e2cf90.txt
Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.Code:
Major Version 7
Minor Version 1
Build Number 0002
Build Date Oct 7 2013
Build Time 12:34:45
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 3
OS Minor Version 11
OS Build Version 10
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1407373200
Up Time 0.459062
Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x23922c)[0x7fee395ce22c]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x23948d)[0x7fee395ce48d]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf9f0)[0x7fee3a2819f0]
./libbase.so(_ZN5earth15GfxCardInfoUnix25GetGraphicsCardMemoryInMBERi+0xe)[0x7fee3385d54e]
/opt/google/earth/free/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext26DetectHardwareCapabilitiesEv+0x450)[0x7fee2803e180]
/opt/google/earth/free/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext11OpenContextEN3Gap3Gfx25igRenderDestinationFormatERKNS0_8InitInfoE+0x1f4)[0x7fee2803e5c4]
/opt/google/earth/free/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext4initERKNS0_8InitInfoE+0x123)[0x7fee2803e723]
/opt/google/earth/free/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl4initERKNS0_8InitInfoE+0xeb)[0x7fee27eebb9b]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget6SetApiEPN5earth4evll3APIE+0x7a)[0x7fee30d6064a]
./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12createWidgetEv+0x17c)[0x7fee30d4f12c]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidget9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x86)[0x7fee395ae9d6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0x599)[0x7fee386d5299]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xac)[0x7fee3867e49c]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x20f)[0x7fee3868673f]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x8c)[0x7fee369d8a6c]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x12a)[0x7fee386d72ca]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0xb1)[0x7fee386d70e1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x146)[0x7fee386d7176]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0xb1)[0x7fee386d70e1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x146)[0x7fee386d7176]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0xb1)[0x7fee386d70e1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x146)[0x7fee386d7176]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x146)[0x7fee386d7176]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x146)[0x7fee386d7176]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x3f)[0x7fee386d71df]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1aa)[0x7fee386d75da]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x3d)[0x7fee386c8c0d]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xbc5)[0x7fee395ab1a5]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x323)[0x7fee39657763]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x700)[0x7fee3965e230]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x238c42)[0x7fee395cdc42]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x1dc)[0x7fee395cde4c]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7fee39be1be5]
./googleearth-bin[0x4008b9]