I found it easier to do: cd /opt/google/earth/free/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH strace ./googleearth-bin 2>&1 | grep -B10 SEGV_MAPERR | grep fonts example, below we can see '60-group-non-tt-fonts.conf' is causing problems: [/opt/google/earth/free]>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH strace ./googleearth-bin 2>&1 | grep -B10 SEGV_MAPERR read(12, "", 8192) = 0 close(12) = 0 access("/etc/fonts/infinality/conf.d/60-group-non-tt-fonts.conf", R_OK) = 0 stat64("/etc/fonts/infinality/conf.d/60-group-non-tt-fonts.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=90663, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/fonts/infinality/conf.d/60-group-non-tt-fonts.conf", O_RDONLY) = 12 read(12, "\n\n\t\tDokChampa\n\t\t