$ google-earth 
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/username/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-50d358bc.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.


$ cat /home/username/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-50d358bc.txt
Major Version 7
Minor Version 0
Build Number 0002
Build Date Dec 13 2012
Build Time 17:54:43
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 3
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 10
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1356028092
Up Time 0,756973

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1e9fab)[0xf755dfab]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1ea1f3)[0xf755e1f3]
linux-gate.so.1(__kernel_sigreturn+0x0)[0xf76eb400]