picasa don't start

[jmarg]

In fedora 8, picasa don't open. I have this problem with either version 2.2 or 2.7 beta. When I am trying to run picasa from the command prompt, I don't receive any message.

However, the app work properly when I strat it as root.

I would appreciate your help on this issue.

Thanks,

John

[robvnl]

Picasa did work well on fc8. But since a month or so, after some updates, when I start picasa by clicking the icon it just dies. From the command line I get the following:
robv@L3CRA82.lan [ /home/robv ]
=> picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 25940 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 26035 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \
robv@L3CRA82.lan [ /home/robv ]

In this topic I read starting from root id it should work. Not what I want but I tried it to run as root. What happens is that my session ends immediately and I need to login again.

In ./var/log/messages are interesting logs after this incident:
Aug 10 23:17:14 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[25849]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bf9b0c00 error 4
Aug 10 23:17:14 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[25940]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfe2b8a0 error 4
Aug 10 23:17:15 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[26035]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfe958b0 error 4

Is this a known issue? Somebody who can help?

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by jmarg

In fedora 8, picasa don't open. I have this problem with either version 2.2 or 2.7 beta. When I am trying to run picasa from the command prompt, I don't receive any message.

However, the app work properly when I strat it as root.

I would appreciate your help on this issue.

Thanks,

John

ver 2.7 has been out for a while so I suggest you update to the current version. I have it and it runs fine on my F8 x64 system.

[robvnl]

I have picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm installed....

[glennzo]

Here's what I'm running, picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386, and it only runs as root from a terminal on Fedora 9 for me. Its installed on more than one Fedora 9 box and the result is the same. The error messages are also identical.

[ozjd]

I'm running the same version under F8 without problems. I didn't do anything special when installing it, just followed the instructions on the picasa site. However I do have the full version of Wine installed. From memory I installed it as a user and not as root. If you installed it while logged in as root it may not work for a user.

[glennzo]

I just located wine, in /opt/picasa/wine/bin, and did chmod 755 wine. Then I typed picasa in the terminal and the program ran, as regular user. Does this make sense? Permissions is one of those things that I have very little knowledge of. Before I made the change this is what the file listing looked like

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   4856 2008-03-27 13:51 wine

After the change this is what it looks like

-rwxrwxr-x  1 root root   4856 2008-03-27 13:51 wine

All I did was to give myself write access if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't think that this change would make a difference.

[ozjd]

That doesn't make much sense. Mine is as you first posted, ie. no write access, and it works for me. I don't know much about permissions either but I thought all you would need is execute access which it appears to me everyone has (there is "x" for owner, group and all).
There is a forum on the picasa page at Google, may be worth asking there if no answers are forthcoming here soon.

[glennzo]

Makes no sense to me either. I would have thought that all I need is execute access also.

[robvnl]

No, the permissions are set ok. I am curious to what you get when you execute picasa from the command line. At my fc8 it gives the following messages:
=> picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 3711 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 3806 Segmentation fault "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-4\\Software\\Google\\Picasa\\Picasa2\\Preferences\ \

It is very nasty to see a registry issue. It seems the whole thing runs in a wine environment. Look at /var/log/messages:
Aug 11 23:10:02 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[3620]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfbfde70 error 4
Aug 11 23:10:02 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[3711]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bfa1f4c0 error 4
Aug 11 23:10:02 L3CRA82 kernel: wine-pthread[3806]: segfault at 118280 ip 00118280 sp bf9efc20 error 4

erase the rpm, it says: not installed. install the rpm it says: allready installed....
So I removed the /opt/picasa and reinstalled with --force. Same errors.

I moved in my home dir the .picasa to .picasa.old, same errors.

To see where picasa resides I ran:
locate picasa

Indeed wine things:
/usr/opt/picasa/wine/
An own environment.

I am stuck here now, Another fresh look this week.

[glennzo]

I get the same errors that you get. There is a temporary workaround that I found. Lasts only as long as your session. That is to say you reboot you need to apply the workaround again.

sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0

Then there's another that is supposed to be permanent? Open a terminal and type gedit /etc/sysctl.conf. Change the line that reads:
vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 to vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 Reboot and see what happens. Don't remember if I've used that on this computer. Maybe I'll try it later if I think of it.

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by robvnl

I am curious to what you get when you execute picasa from the command line.

Tried and I got nothing, Picasa ran but no messages. (This is a different system, not x64 but still F8, will check on the laptop with x64 later and post if I get any message).

Originally Posted by glennzo

Then there's another that is supposed to be permanent? Open a terminal and type gedit /etc/sysctl.conf. Change the line that reads:
vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 to vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

Don't have that line at all.

Perhaps I should have mentioned earlier I am running KDE F8.

[glennzo]

I just found this http://groups.google.com/group/Googl...427c737b26f681. Haven't read through it yet but maybe there's some help there.

Edit: It's also been suggested in several forums that you delete the .picasa directory in your home folder and try running picasa again.

[robvnl]

Hi all. I checked out the wine wiki page mentioned before. Although it is a different error message and we talk about fedora 9 here, while I run fc8, I have done the steps for sysctl. In /etc/sysctl.conf. I added the line vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 because I did not have that line there. Rebooted. And guess what:
=> picasa
robv@L3CRA82.lan [ /home/robv ]
=>
no errors, no picasa.

I did not know what I was doing anyway...

Cont. searching.

[aniketv]

I had same issue, made the sysctl fix , and then no error no picasa, but now delete .picasa in your home dir and try again , it will work! It worked for me.
But now the issue is that the Picasa startup splash refuses to go away!!