Google Earth runs for all users except me

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 09:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64
> > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by
> > any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that
> > is jonrysh).  The symptom is that when invoked jonrysh everything works
> > correctly (sidebar, top bar, tour guide, etc) EXCEPT for the main
> > window, which is supposed to show the world image; this window is black.
> > When invoked by any other user, google-earth runs exactly as expected.
> >
> > The problem is not bad data in ~/.googleearth; when .googleearth is
> > deleted from my home directory things continue as before.
> >
> > System Details
> >         CPU: AMD 64-bits, 4 core
> >         Video: GeForce 8400GS
> >         OpSys: Fedora 17 with all updates
> >         Driver: kmod-nvidia-3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64-304.64-2.fc17.5.x86_64
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?  What's the best way to investigate?
> 
> Hummm....  On the surface it sounds like the
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 driver issue.  Where you need to install
> the 32-bit version on a 64-bit system in order to get it to work.
> But, you say that it works for other users.....

Actually installing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 is the second thing
you have to do to get google-earth to display properly.  First is to
remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf otherwise google-earth
crashes on startup.  (Figure that out!)  

Now google-earth is running properly for root and guest, but not for
jonrysh.  Weird.

BTW: google-earth is 
	google-earth-stable-7.0.2.8415-0.x86_64
which I forgot to put in the original posting.

jon