Daniel Feiglin wrote: Situation Summary: Kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.3-default (latest patch) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" Video card: nVidia, GeForce MX 4000 Driver - from openSUSE (yast installed) fully patched, 1.0-9631 GoogleEarth version: 4.0.2735.0 Same problem with latest, 4.1.7076.4458 When running from a command line, it comes up, shows the logo graphic and then a SIGSEGV - Google Earth has caught signal 11. Another crash happened while handling crash! For what it's worth, i ran the unistall, got rid of ~/.googleearth and re-installed. The problem persists. If I do the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.10 hack, and then run from the command line I get this: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory For the record, this item does exist, in /lib as libdl-2.5.so with libdl.so.2 symlinks from /lib and /usr/lib. Can't think of anything else.