That's the log:

~> googleearth Google Earth has caught signal 11.

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:

/home/levi/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c171846.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google. levi@linux:~> cat /home/levi/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c171846.txt 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 25 OS Patch Version 20 Crash Signal 11 Crash Time 1276581958 Up Time 1.04959

Stacktrace from glibc: ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xd030b)[0xf7f3630b] [0xffffe400] /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XInitExtension+0x41)[0xf5653921] /usr/lib/libXext.so.6(XextAddDisplay+0x52)[0xf55e17c2] /usr/lib/libGL.so.1(+0x1ae26)[0xf558ae26]

libGL.so.1 was updated manually from Mesa-7.8.. package under SUSE11, together with glibc 2.11

I upgraded manually for Skype, but now googleearth crash.

thanks.