I was able to diagnose the problem using your server, and unfortunately,
this is due to the same nVidia driver issues previously described.  When
VirtualGL is preloaded by vglrun, it also loads libGL.so into memory,
and this causes nVidia's custom versions of dlsym() and dlopen() to
override the ones in libdl.  Thus, applications that try to use dlsym()
(which unfortunately includes /bin/sh in this case) will sometimes fail.
 You can reproduce the same failure without even invoking vglrun:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 sh

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2070826

Peter Åstrand wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Peter Åstrand wrote:
> 
>> We've tried to reproduce the problem in our lab, but unfortunately,
>> Google Earth doesn't run at all on our test machine any longer, not
>> even on the console. It worked a few weeks ago, now it doesn't. We'll
>> get a segfault in different libraries such as libX11, libc, libGL etc.
>>
>> I guess we need to reinstall or try another machine.
> 
> On a new machine with a clean SLED11 installation, I can now reproduce
> the problem: Every shell script segfaults with vglrun.
> 
> I will give you access to this machine so that you can debug. Stay tuned...
> 
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