Description of problem: When working remotely connected to a vnc server, launching google-earth crashes the vnc server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-server-4.1.2-23.fc8 kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 google-earth 4.2.192.2451 (non-fedora). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install google-earth from http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html 2. If needed, set the vnc server password using vncpasswd 3. Start the server with "vncserver" 4. Connect to the server using a vnc client from a remote machine (FYI: mine is RealVNC 4.1.2 on XP). 5. Type "googleearth" in the shell window... Actual results: a) The vnc window on the remote machine disappears. b) Issuing "ps ax" on the server host show that Xvnc has stopped c) In /var/log/message, the following line is logged: Nov 9 22:16:03 sbftp2 kernel: Xvnc[20159] general protection eip:811c711 esp:bfadd2c0 error:0 Expected results: A wonderful display of the planet earth ! Additional info: Perhaps not related to, but remember google-earth uses GLX...
Bug in main xorg source, reassigning to xorg team
backtrace from Xvfb fail: #0 0x08b6e5b0 in ?? () #1 0x081202e4 in DoSwapInterval (cl=<value optimized out>, pc=0xb7dcb008 "\223\020\004", do_swap=0) at swap_interval.c:80 #2 0x0813128a in __glXDisp_VendorPrivate (cl=0x8ca3998, pc=0xb7dcb008 "\223\020\004") at glxcmds.c:2322 #3 0x08117116 in __glXDispatch (client=0x8c60ac8) at glxext.c:561 #4 0x080f7efe in XaceCatchExtProc (client=0x8c60ac8) at xace.c:299 #5 0x0806ea1a in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:457 #6 0x0807ff1a in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfcf1004, envp=Cannot access memory at address 0x9 ) at main.c:447 #7 0x003ab390 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 #8 0x0805d831 in _start () looks like Mesa problem.
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Was related to libGL. OK in F10. Closing bug.