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Old July 22nd, 2010, 14:24
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When i go to run googleearth i take this error:
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Warning: Unable to create symlink for lock '/home/deadreamer/.googleearth/instance-running-lock'.  File exists.
But when i delete instance-running-lock file from /compact/linux/home/deadreamer/.googleearth then googleearth run.
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Old July 22nd, 2010, 18:46
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Hmm, from /usr/local/share/google-earth/bin/googleearth:
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Google Earth startup script
#

<much snipped script>

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

rm -f ${HOME}/.googleearth/instance-running-lock
if [ -x "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/googleearth-bin" ]
then
        cd "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/"
        exec "./googleearth-bin" "$@"
fi
echo "Couldn't run Google Earth (googleearth-bin). Is GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH set?"
exit 1

# end of googleearth ...
So, if you use the normal method, it should clear it on start automatically.
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Old July 22nd, 2010, 20:43
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Hmm, from /usr/local/share/google-earth/bin/googleearth:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Google Earth startup script
#

<much snipped script>

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

rm -f ${HOME}/.googleearth/instance-running-lock
if [ -x "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/googleearth-bin" ]
then
        cd "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/"
        exec "./googleearth-bin" "$@"
fi
echo "Couldn't run Google Earth (googleearth-bin). Is GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH set?"
exit 1

# end of googleearth ...
So, if you use the normal method, it should clear it on start automatically.
No, this does not clear

/compat/linux/home/USERNAME/.googleearth/instance-running-lock
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No. Is not clearing it on start
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No, this does not clear

/compat/linux/home/USERNAME/.googleearth/instance-running-lock
Ah, I just caught that. Why on (google)Earth does that even exist?

If you need a /compat/linux/home/ tree in the first place, why not symlink it to your normal [/usr]/home/?

I suppose a solution would be to add a line to the script that deleted the /compat/linux/ subtended lock file as well.
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[..snip..]

If you need a /compat/linux/home/ tree in the first place, why not symlink it to your normal [/usr]/home/?

I suppose a solution would be to add a line to the script that deleted the /compat/linux/ subtended lock file as well.
I think the behaviour of googleearth installation changed in last update.

I am no friend of additional symlinks, that had not automatically been installed from the port :-(

The newest port seems to use only /compat/linux/home/USERNAME/.googleearth/ for the lockfile. As far as I can see there is no lockfile in /usr/home/USERNAME/.googleearth/ (anymore).
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I'm confused about the very existence of /compat/linux/home/ . That shouldn't necessary at all, right? I don't have one, and Google Earth starts up fine here.

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Yeah, I've never had googleearth create such a thing for me, and it does run well enough here. ( google-earth-5.2.1.1329 )
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I'm confused about the very existence of /compat/linux/home/ . That shouldn't necessary at all, right? I don't have one, and Google Earth starts up fine here.

Adam
As far as I can evaluate, /compat/linux/home/ was created from print/acroread8. Once it exists, it seems that googleearth uses it, too.

I see this behaviour on three machines, all 9.0-CURRENT (amd64).

Solution: Deleting /compat/linux/home/ seems to bring no disadvantages. Now acroread and googleearth are working with /usr/home/ again
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Well, again, for what it's worth, print/acroread8 never created /compat/linux/home here
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On mine FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.4.5 Goggle-Earth doesn't start:
Code:
/usr/local/bin/googleearth %f
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:

    /usr/home/ajtim/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c4a0b3d.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.
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Solution: Deleting /compat/linux/home/ seems to bring no disadvantages. Now acroread and googleearth are working with /usr/home/ again
Didn't work. He creates again .googleearth forder on /compat/linux/home/ and also instance-running-lock file when i close it.
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So googleearth created /compat/linux/home/ ?

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So googleearth created /compat/linux/home/ ?
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Uh, are you passing any weird environment stuff? You using the normal script to start googleearth? Are you perchance starting it as root? Can you just # rm -r /usr/compat/linux/home && ln -s /home /usr/compat/linux/home?
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# rm -r /usr/compat/linux/home && ln -s /home /usr/compat/linux/home
Whith this command, problem solved
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