Neither Picasa 2.7 nor 3.0 works on Fedora 14 (segfault during startup)

[Luke]

Neither Picasa-2.7 nor Picasa-3.0.5744-02 works on Fedora 14.
Picasa-3.0 shows its banner then crashes, Picasa-2.7 doesn't even show
its banner.

I have tried deleting .picasa and .google/picasa, as well as the
"sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0" trick as root, and none of those work.
Running as root also does not fix this. Combinations of these
solutions are the only things that could get Picasa working on older
versions of Fedora.

Errors on the console for Picasa-3.0 are:

$ picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 9534 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 9644 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

ABRT output is:

Package: picasa-3.0.5744-02
Latest Crash: Sun 17 Oct 2010 09:43:14 PM
Command: /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/../bin/wine-pthread
rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128
wine.inf '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' ''
'' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' ''
'' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' ''
Reason: Process /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine-preloader
was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Comment: None
Bug Reports:

From what I read online, it sounds like Ubuntu 10.10 also has issues
launching Picasa. Please can an updated build be released that works
with newer Linux distros?

Thanks,
Luke

[uk_cam]

I see this in messages:
Oct 23 20:40:12 Newt kernel: [ 9140.292343] wine-pthread[4279]:
segfault at 0 ip 60003275 sp bfbc3848 error 4 in
ld-2.12.90.so[60000000+20000]
Oct 23 20:40:12 Newt abrt[4376]: saved core dump of pid 4279 (/opt/
google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine-preloader) to /var/spool/abrt/
ccpp-1287862812-4279.new/coredump (233
472 bytes)

I can't make sense of that coredump though.

-Cam

[Patrick Shanahan]

* uk_cam <camilo...@gmail.com> [10-24-10 01:33]:

Short answer: dump 2.7/3.0 and get 3.8. Install via wine.

There really is no "for linux" version in spite of the naming/labeling.
They really are just provided with a "tweaked" wine version. The newer
3.8 version has updated features and works better under linux than the
"labeled 'for linux'" versions did.

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[Camilo Mesias]

Hi Patrick,

> Short answer:  dump 2.7/3.0 and get 3.8.  Install via wine.

That begs the question, which Linux distro are you using and which
version of wine?

Thanks

-Cam
(using Fedora 14, wine-1.3.4-1.fc14.i686)

[Edward Comer]

While Picasa isn't really a Linux build and runs under wine, it isn't using the wine installation of your distro. Rather, the Picasa installer installs its own copy of wine, which may be customized in some way. On my distro the Picasa wine build is located in "/opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine", It could be an issue between Picasa's wine build and Fedora 14. When you invole picasa under Linux, it runs a shell that does lots of environmental cleanup and then invoked picasa.exe under its own version of wine.

Try running picasa from shell using your distro's installed version of wine with the following command. If it still crashes, you may see some clues in the terminal messages. If it works, then the wine installation used by Picasa is bad and you should correct the menu to start using your wine version.:

wine "c:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\Picasa3.exe"

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[Camilo Mesias]

OK I tried the default wine from fedora 14 and it worked. I had some
errors first time round and had to delete my ~/.wine, after that the
installation worked.

Picasa seems to work now, although my albums are in a mess after
shotwell has had a go at them (my jpeg + raw images are doubled up
whereas I used to ignore raw files before).

[hallergard]

Have the same problem that I cannot install Picasa 2.7 and 3.0 on
Fedora 14 32-bit. Yes, I have installed with wine Picasa 3.8 which
works fine, except my main objective is to use Picasa on my TV using
lirc, and I have difficulties with the focus to get lirc to work with
wine/P3.8

So I have had to go back to Picasa 2.2 to get lirc to function
properly. Would very much prefer Picasa 3.0, which installs well on
other up to date distros. So how can the problem with F14 get solved?

[George Ro]

The fix from http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1419752
worked for me! It seems there's a problem with application that ship
their own wine and Fedora 14 x86_64.

I simply did

cp /usr/bin/wine-preloader /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/

and picasa now starts normally.

[Patrick Shanahan]

* George Ro <george...@gmail.com> [11-23-10 13:41]:

wine ./picasa38-setup.exe

why use *old* software with fewer and broken features?

[Cibeles]

Hi all,

I can not get Picasa 3 working on F14 x86_64 nor Picasa 3.8 via wine.

These are the steps I'm following:

[root@cerebellum tmp]# yum localinstall picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
(file downloaded from http://picasa.google.com/intl/es/linux/)
Installed:
picasa.i386 0:3.0.5744-02

[root@cerebellum tmp]# sysctl -n vm.mmap_min_addr
0

[amaya@cerebellum ~]$ picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 6675 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 6789 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
"$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

I've tried everything I've found thru the Internet, but nothing seems
to work, can you help out here?

Many thanks in advance.
Amaya

[Stephen]

You should list what you've tried ...

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[Patrick Shanahan]

* Cibeles <cibe...@gmail.com> [11-24-10 12:45]:

> I can not get Picasa 3 working on F14 x86_64 nor Picasa 3.8 via wine.

messing with ver 3.0 is a waste of your time.

> These are the steps I'm following:
>
> [root@cerebellum tmp]# yum localinstall picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
> (file downloaded from http://picasa.google.com/intl/es/linux/)
> Installed:
> picasa.i386 0:3.0.5744-02
>
> [root@cerebellum tmp]# sysctl -n vm.mmap_min_addr
> 0
>
> [amaya@cerebellum ~]$ picasa
> /usr/bin/picasa: line 189: 6675 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
> /usr/bin/picasa: line 248: 6789 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so
>
> I've tried everything I've found thru the Internet, but nothing seems
> to work, can you help out here?

everything you list relates to ver 3.0, not 3.8 as indicated.

wine picasa38-setup.exe

should suffice, yumm is *not* necessary.

[Cibeles]

did tried picasa 3.8 thru wine and nothing, it can't boot...

Also picasa 3.0 preloader crashes when booting machine:

Package:        picasa-3.0.5744-02
Latest Crash:    Tue 23 Nov 2010 10:54:02 AM
Command:        /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/../bin/wine-pthread /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine/winedumpfontver.exe.so 'AR PL ZenKai Uni' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' ''

Reason:         Process /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine-preloader was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Comment:        None
Bug Reports:   

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[Stephen]

Seems font related. Don't know the fix though. Can you run the picasa font setup app? (forget it's name)

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[Cibeles]

Does Picasa have a font set up? How do I run it? I was using F13, I did have Picasa, installed and launched as mentioned an no problem at all.

[Stephen]

It should be in your applications start up menu as part of the Picasa application. I can't help you as I don't run Fedora. Why don't you ask on your distributions help list?

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[hallergard]

Shanahan: "why use *old* software with fewer and broken features?" I
did explain that in front of the TV I prefere using Picasa with the
lirc remote control, and I have not been able to do that with the pure
wine version 3.8, I have problem to get the focus. Yes, when sitting
at the desktoop I prefer using 3.8, but to use lirc I had to go back
to version 2.2

Therefore I am very grateful to George Ro for your fix tip, which
solves my problem; I could now upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0 and have lirc
focus functioning:
cp /usr/bin/wine-preloader /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/
Thanks Gerorge Ro!"