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    Picasa won't start

    After a few updates last week, Picasa won't start anymore. I can only run Picasa as superuser/root

    When I execute picasa in a terminal I get this:

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    [kmarien@compaq ~]$ picasa
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 16066 Segmentatiefout         "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 16169 Segmentatiefout         "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\\
    [kmarien@compaq ~]$
    at line 138 and 139:

    # Try to avoid having a missing "My Pictures" directory
    "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so

    and at line 172-175:

    # We only run the media detector if the option is not disabled
    registry_export=`mktemp /tmp/picasa.mediacheck.reg.XXXXXX`

    "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \
    rc=$?



    Is anybode else getting this error and how do I resolve this problem?

    Kris

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    Precisely the same issue

    Just today I've had precisely the same issue

    Here is the terminal output

    [esthiaque@localhost ~]$ picasa
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 4276 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 4376 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \

    have not done anything to cause this.

    Just updated my system yesterday and a rogue update looks to be the most likely culprit.

    Did you ever work out a solution for this?

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    I did not find a solution to fix this version of picasa. Instead i installed picasa 3 from the google test repositories.
    I don't know if that version is yet out of beta because I don't use picasa anymore. At that time, most functions in picasa 3 were functional.

    Succes.

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    other details

    I should have said I'm running F11 64bit and Picasa would work fine it's just that it would crash every time I tried to use the slideshow function.

    Will try the test repos.

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    Ok heres a dirty fix
    su
    sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
    and then delete .picasa in you home directory and picasa should start, however next time you reboot you will need to re enter sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0 or set it up in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or something temporarily.
    I think the error is due to nvidia driver and the kernel so hopefully its only a temp thing.
    Last edited by Dangermouse; 31st August 2009 at 05:51 PM.

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    Smile Success

    Have installed the Picasa 3 Beta and it works. Will play slideshows now without a hiccup.

    Couldn't find the package in the testing repos.

    Maybe I didn't do it right.

    Just downloaded it from Google (how come Ubuntu get a 64 bit version and we don't?)

    Thanks Dangermouse for the guru fix but it works and I'm happy.

    Not sure of the underlying issue.

    I have an Intel IGP (G41) so not sure how an Nvidia driver issue would affect that.

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    Glad it works, for those who dont know how to install the beta 3 version, a small edit to the google repo is all thats needed just change stable to testing.
    [google]
    name=Google - i386
    #baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
    baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386
    enabled=1
    gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
    or you could use the latest autoten to install picasa3 for you
    Last edited by Dangermouse; 1st September 2009 at 07:45 PM.

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    picasa 2.7 does not work under Fedora 12.. I've tried all the fixes available on the net, but still, no result.. The error that I'm always getting is:

    /usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 3325 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 3431 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \
    I'm downloading the beta version of Picasa at the moment.. I hope it works

    EDIT: I just confirmed that Picasa 3 Beta works.. but not 2.7
    Last edited by bigboss2200; 21st November 2009 at 12:57 PM.
    Code:
    [Faris@localhost ~]$ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
    http://farisguides.webs.com

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    yes picasa 3 works fine, however it no longer seems to be in the google repos so discard my earlier post now,
    it is available with the latest autoten for f11 + f12 + omega or direct from google
    http://picasa.google.com/linux/

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    AAHHHHHHRRRRRG, Dependency hell!

    I thought I'd post this here since this is where I found why my Picasa 2.7 won't work, even if it is a pretty old thread. If nobody answers I'll just start a new one.

    I pulled the 3.0 RPM and now I'm getting:

    rpm -Uvh ./picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
    lsb >= 3.1 is needed by picasa-3.0.5744-02.i386
    lsb-core-ia32 >= 3.0 is needed by picasa-3.0.5744-02.i386

    Anybody know where to get these? I've had about as much luck as usual trying to find a dependency that's not listed in the Repos.

    Thanks
    Eric

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    lsb
    lsb-core-ia32

    32 bit ofcourse
    Code:
    [Faris@localhost ~]$ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
    http://farisguides.webs.com

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    Re: Picasa won't start

    Im having this problem under fedora 14 x86_64 now.
    Neither picasa 3 nor 2.7 works. The sysctl trick doesnt seem to do it either.
    No picasa for me then.

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    Re: Picasa won't start

    Quote Originally Posted by misiu_mp
    Im having this problem under fedora 14 x86_64 now.
    Neither picasa 3 nor 2.7 works. The sysctl trick doesnt seem to do it either.
    No picasa for me then.
    add me to the list

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    Re: Picasa won't start

    Quote Originally Posted by AlphaTwin
    AAHHHHHHRRRRRG, Dependency hell!

    I thought I'd post this here since this is where I found why my Picasa 2.7 won't work, even if it is a pretty old thread. If nobody answers I'll just start a new one.

    I pulled the 3.0 RPM and now I'm getting:

    rpm -Uvh ./picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
    lsb >= 3.1 is needed by picasa-3.0.5744-02.i386
    lsb-core-ia32 >= 3.0 is needed by picasa-3.0.5744-02.i386

    Anybody know where to get these? I've had about as much luck as usual trying to find a dependency that's not listed in the Repos.

    Thanks
    Eric
    Code:
    [glenn@satellite ~>$ yum whatprovides */lsb
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
    Adding en_US to language list
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
     * fedora: mirrors.med.harvard.edu
     * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
     * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
     * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
     * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
     * updates: mirror.seas.harvard.edu
    redhat-lsb-4.0-5.fc14.x86_64 : LSB base libraries support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    Repo        : fedora
    Matched from:
    Filename    : /usr/lib/lsb
    Filename    : /lib/lsb
    
    
    
    redhat-lsb-4.0-5.fc14.i686 : LSB base libraries support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    Repo        : fedora
    Matched from:
    Filename    : /usr/lib/lsb
    Filename    : /lib/lsb
    
    su -c 'yum install redhat-lsb'
    rpm -Uvh ./picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm

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    Re: Picasa won't start

    I run F14 64 bit. I am able to install picasa but get seg faults when I run picasa. I downloaded picasa 3 from google.

    [jimmy@linuxhome ~]$ picasa
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 19756 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
    /usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 19870 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

    Any help in getting picasa to work would be great.

    Thanks
    Regards
    Jimmy

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