I had the same seg fault error with Picasa 2.7. Then I tried Picasa 3.0 and that worked for me.
On Jan 28, 2:31 pm, adempewolff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrappercheck_dir.exe.so > > /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 2629 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > "$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.
