Google earth crash before initialising

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googleearth

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We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
 This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
 circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
 to this text file:

Major Version 5
Minor Version 2
Build Number 0001
Build Date Jun 10 2010
Build Time 16:15:55
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 35
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 6
Crash Time 1287236253
Up Time 0.386312

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xd030b)[0x93a30b]
[0xd20400]
/lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182)[0x53ce42]
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so(+0x12e3f)[0x21f6e3f]
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so(+0x3d887)[0x2221887]
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so(+0x11082)[0x21f5082]
/usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x3b830)[0x6f13830]
/usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x16132)[0x6eee132]
/usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x12f7a)[0x6eeaf7a]
/usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(glXChooseVisual+0x36)[0x6eec106]
./librender.so(+0x4d673)[0xc80673]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget4initEv+0x116)[0xc81056]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidgetC1EP7QWidgetPKc6QFlagsIN2Qt10WindowTypeEE+0x16c)[0xc81eac]
./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12createWidgetEv+0x82)[0xc64432]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidget9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x94)[0x9172d4]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0xabb)[0xf597ef]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa0)[0xf09e20]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x16f)[0xf138a3]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x70)[0x284d50]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0xcc)[0xf5c55c]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0xf5c264]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0xf5c482]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0xf5c469]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0xf5c264]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0xf5c482]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0xf5c469]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0xf5c264]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0xf5c482]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0xf5c469]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0xf5c469]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0xf5c469]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0xf5c4d5]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0xf5ca97]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x4a)[0xf4ce9e]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xc35)[0x8ff225]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x29e)[0x93e61e]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x42f)[0x94547f]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x27d)[0x93973d]
./googleearth-bin(_init+0x122)[0x80486c2]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x525ce7]
./googleearth-bin(_init+0x91)[0x8048631]

So please log a bug...

Thanks, freshly installed 10.10, then downloaded latest version of G Earth (6.0) and installed....all fine now.