I have the same issue on amd64 with googleearth version 4.0.2735.0-0medibuntu1 from the medibuntu repository. An strace of the process returns this 'ioctl(7, 0xc00c645c, 0xffc6e238) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)' a lot.
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