Ubuntu 8.04, picasa 2.7 from apt repo. I started getting this issue recently after a power outage. I suspect some of the wine lib files got munged or something. A diff -qr on my .picasa/ vs a clean .picasa/ showed differences in dll files... who knows.
As others have suggested, moving the ~/.picasa folder effectively solves it, but you lose all your data. Here's what I did to get my data back: $ mv .picasa .picasa_broken Then start up picasa and quit it, just so it creates a new "clean" .picasa folder. If picasa fails to start here you have a different problem. $ mv ".picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings/yourname" .picasa/ data_backup $ cp -r ".picasa_broken/drive_c/Documents and Settings/yourname" ".picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings/" Then start up picasa again and all your pictures should be back. Christopher On Mar 26, 4:34 am, DanKegel <daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 25, 7:44 am, leenuxg33k <bill.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Fedora 10, latest updates 03/25/09 > > >> picasa shows the splash screen and then disappear and come back > >> to the command prompt > > Coming back to the command prompt is normal; it runs in the > background. > > >> I tried moving .google to .google-bak and ran picasa again like so: > > >> [vp...@vixen ~]$ WINEDEBUG=1 picasa > >> err:set_lang:get_picasa_lang Failed to get Picasa language key: 2 > > >> it shows the splash screen a little longer then it disappears but > >> never returns the command prompt. > > > I ended up killing all IM-* daemons and picasa finally launched! > > > /usr/libexec/gconf-im-settings-daemon > > imsettings-applet --disable-xsettings > > /usr/libexec/im-info-daemon > > /usr/libexec/im-settings-daemon > > That's interesting. Do you normally use an IME? What language > do you use? > > If the problem persists, you might try a more detailed kind of > logging, e.g. > WINEDEBUG=+process picasa > log.txt 2>&1 > That particular option will log the creation of new processes, > which might give us some idea where it's getting stuck. > Even more detailed is to log all file operations, e.g. > WINEDEBUG=+file picasa > log.txt 2>&1 > These logs are so long you might need to compress and > attach them rather than pasting them. > - Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-labs-picasa-for-linux+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
