Comment 15 for bug 459153

Google Earth on Karmic - same type of crash upon launch. Displays the Earth, zooms a bit and bounces back to the desktop. Here is my crash log:
dolphius@dolphius-laptop:~$ sudo ~/Downloads/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.1.3533.1731..............................................................
loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

Installing mimetypes...
Installing desktop menu entries...
Installing desktop icon...
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File radeon_tcl.c function radeon_run_tcl_render line 499
Rendering was 267 commands larger than predicted size. We might overflow command buffer.
***************************************************************************
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
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:
    /root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4b6ca47b.txt

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

The text file mentioned above is not created.