title: Crashing X on CentOS with Google Earth link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/crashing-x-on-centos-with-google-earth/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 578 created: 2008/01/21 13:49:36 created_gmt: 2008/01/21 13:49:36 comment_status: open post_name: crashing-x-on-centos-with-google-earth status: publish post_type: post

Crashing X on CentOS with Google Earth

Apart from the normal daily surprise Firefox crashes (which aren’t really a surprise any more because I’ve come to expect them), Google Earth decided to start crashing X on my nVidia equipped CentOS workstation lately.

This was very annoying. A little Googling gave me a fix that worked.

Basically, it’s the same old copy an old (different) copy of a library file into the program directory trick.

Here’s the post that put me on to it.

All I did was download the library and put it in my /opt/google-earth directory. Didn’t make any of the other suggested changes.

Still unsure of the details, but near as I can tell the libGL.so.1 on my system (either in /usr/lib or someplace else), isn’t what the app wants — or can’t be read.

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