Picasa 3 beta appears to work fine. I will just use that. I was wondering why nobody seemed to have this problem anymore... they all just started using the new beta!
On Jan 28, 4:37 pm, adempewolff <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Picasa without issues on Ubuntu 9.10 but recently installed > Fedora 12 because Ubuntu was being really unstable with the > proprietary drivers I needed for my graphics and wireless cards. > > I installed it by adding the Google RPM repos and then: > > su -c 'yum install picasa' > > It appeared to install perfectly but whenever I go to run it from the > terminal it seg faults: > > [aus...@austin-laptop-fedora ~]$ picasa > /usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 2519 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so > /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 2629 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\ > \Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\\ > > When I try running it as root it gets a little farther but then a > dialogue comes up with an error about a page file and it crashes > again. > > This sounded like the PreloaderPageZeroProblem (http://wiki.winehq.org/ > PreloaderPageZeroProblem) so I followed the instructions to fix it but > that did nothing. > > su -c 'sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0' > > appears to execute successfully but picasa still crashes the same way. > > the text file '/etc/sysctl.conf' has no 'vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536' > line to change to '0', but even so, I tried adding one and rebooting, > but that did not help either. > > All the documentation on how to fix this bug seems to be a couple > years old, anyone have any insight on how to fix this on Fedora 12? > > Thanks, > Austin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
