Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
When you boot Knoppix - it will either prompt you to make the USB stick with persistent storage on the first boot - or you can create new knoppix USB media using the included writer from the booted system. Actually, when booting Knoppix, you could supply boot option to load the boot media to RAM.

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: If you create Knoppix USB media with persistent storage, you can install new apps from Debian repos or .deb or any other way. Tomas, I downloaded the .iso and used dd to put it on a thumb drive. I've no idea what features/characteristics this version

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you create Knoppix USB media with persistent storage, you can install new apps from Debian repos or .deb or any other way. I would not recommend running OS update/upgrade, but adding few apps and configuring works great. -T On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 18:35 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, wes wrote: The next step would be to attempt to reproduce the problem with different software on the same hardware. Maybe throw a separate hard drive in there and install Debian or Ubuntu on it, and see if GE has the same behavior? It may even be possible to run GE in the

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: I agree with wes, your best next step is to swap in a harddrive with a different OS and see how that goes. This is my production server/workstation. Real Soon Now, on a slow Sunday with nothing going on, I'll reboot it to Knoppix-8.6 and see if it has GE.

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Koenig
I agree with wes, your best next step is to swap in a harddrive with a different OS and see how that goes. On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:14 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > Also, how recently did you download the source .deb? Apparently google > > doesn't version

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Also, how recently did you download the source .deb? Apparently google doesn't version their downloads so we have no way to guarantee that what version I downloaded yesterday. Can you grab me the version# from the help menu so that I can rule out any funny

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Koenig
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:02 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > > Ben, > > If it's not a hardware problem what approach to looking for a software > problem would be appropriate? GE does not exhibit this behavior on the Dell > Latitude 5410 or the Lenovo X200, both running Slackware-14.2/x86_64 on > older

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread wes
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:05 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > If it's not a hardware problem what approach to looking for a software > problem would be appropriate? GE does not exhibit this behavior on the Dell > Latitude 5410 or the Lenovo X200, both running Slackware-14.2/x86_64 on > older hardware. >

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: I have a system running a Ryzen7 processor. Works as expected with no issues. My x370 motherboard is not all that different from yours. The changes from x370 -> x470 were not huge. I'm not seeing this as a hardware problem, but if you really need to verify

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Koenig
I have a system running a Ryzen7 processor. Works as expected with no issues. My x370 motherboard is not all that different from yours. The changes from x370 -> x470 were not huge. I'm not seeing this as a hardware problem, but if you really need to verify the hardware possibilities before moving