How to fix: Google Earth crash on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

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I got the following error after executing Google Earth application on Ubunto 10.04 Lucid Lynx

ubuntu@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ /usr/local/bin/googleearth 
Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 1, column 0: unknown encoding.
Google Earth has caught signal 6.



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/ubuntu/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c5bcaa7.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.

This is how I fix the issue:

  • Open terminal
  • Type: 
    cd /opt/google-earth

    OR
    cd /home/[your_ubuntu_username]/google-earth

  • Type: 
    sudo wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1

    You'll see something like these:

    ubuntu@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ sudo wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1
--2010-08-06 08:43:39--  http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1
Resolving librarian.launchpad.net... 91.189.89.224, 91.189.89.225
Connecting to librarian.launchpad.net|91.189.89.224|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 [following]
--2010-08-06 08:43:42--  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/7037027/libGL.so.1
Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net... 91.189.89.228, 91.189.89.229
Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net|91.189.89.228|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 445328 (435K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `libGL.so.1'

100%[===============================================>] 445,328     10.2K/s   in 39s     

2010-08-06 08:44:32 (11.1 KB/s) - `libGL.so.1' saved [445328/445328]

  • Done, execute Google Earth to verify.

Good luck!

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Comments

Submitted by iyoet on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 02:28

Hi There,

i've followed your instruction but here's what i got:

Google Earth could not write to the current cache or My Places file location. The values will be set as follows:
My Places Path: "/home/iyoet/.googleearth"
Cache Path: "/home/iyoet/.googleearth/Cache"

can you please help?

Submitted by Vince on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 02:33

Iyoet, make sure "/home/iyoet/.googleearth" is exists.

Perhaps "ls -o /home/iyoet/.googleearth" ?

Submitted by Jure on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 19:05

Thank's,
works perfect ...

Submitted by Jure on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 19:06

Thank's,
works perfect ...

Submitted by gokimhock on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 08:19

tidak bisa juga boss.

Submitted by Vince on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 11:12

Apakah pesan error yang anda dapatkan sama dengan diatas?

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