Opera segfaults...

Wanted to try out the new free Opera browser. I downloaded the SuSE RPM
and installed it (#rpm -ivh operablahblahblah) then started it from the
CLI (as root). That worked fine, so I exited back to my normal user
account and tried to start it from there. Got a segfault. Can't find
any errors in /var/log/messages, warn, etc. Don't know what to try
next. Any clues?

I've been using Thunderbird and Firefox, but something is wonky with the
way Thunderbird calls Firefox. On my windows box and my Linux box at
work, if I click on a link in email it will open in a new tab in the
current Firefox instance. Here on my home machine it starts a new
instance of Firefox. Drives me nuts. Thought maybe I'd have better
luck w/Opera but can't even test it.

TIA...

....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska

Kevin Miller wrote:

> Wanted to try out the new free Opera browser. I downloaded the SuSE
> RPM and installed it (#rpm -ivh operablahblahblah) then started it
> from the
> CLI (as root). That worked fine, so I exited back to my normal user
> account and tried to start it from there. Got a segfault. Can't find
> any errors in /var/log/messages, warn, etc. Don't know what to try
> next. Any clues?
>
> I've been using Thunderbird and Firefox, but something is wonky with
> the
> way Thunderbird calls Firefox. On my windows box and my Linux box at
> work, if I click on a link in email it will open in a new tab in the
> current Firefox instance. Here on my home machine it starts a new
> instance of Firefox. Drives me nuts. Thought maybe I'd have better
> luck w/Opera but can't even test it.

You will have better luck in the opera.linux newsgroup.

FWIW, I have it running here on 9.3.


B

Kevin Miller adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Wanted to try out the new free Opera browser. I downloaded the SuSE
> RPM and installed it (#rpm -ivh operablahblahblah) then started it
> from the
> CLI (as root). That worked fine, so I exited back to my normal user
> account and tried to start it from there. Got a segfault. Can't find
> any errors in /var/log/messages, warn, etc. Don't know what to try
> next. Any clues?
>
> I've been using Thunderbird and Firefox, but something is wonky with
> the
> way Thunderbird calls Firefox. On my windows box and my Linux box at
> work, if I click on a link in email it will open in a new tab in the
> current Firefox instance. Here on my home machine it starts a new
> instance of Firefox. Drives me nuts. Thought maybe I'd have better
> luck w/Opera but can't even test it.
>
> TIA...
>
> ...Kevin

Try renaming the .opera file in your home dir, could be something in the
configs it does not like.

I have Opera here on 2 systems ( 64 & 32 bit ) with the latest OpenSuSE
10 release and also on 3 other 9.3 machines with no problems.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

baskitcaise wrote:
>
> Try renaming the .opera file in your home dir, could be something in the
> configs it does not like.
>
> I have Opera here on 2 systems ( 64 & 32 bit ) with the latest OpenSuSE
> 10 release and also on 3 other 9.3 machines with no problems.
>
> HTH

Tried that - even tried it as another user. No joy. But I saw today
that SuSE released an update to Opera to 8.5 so I think I'll just
install the packaged rpm, then run YOU. Maybe that'll work better.

I'd still rather get T-bird/Firefox to behave properly though...


....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb

Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote in news:L1_Ze.888
$jT.398@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> Tried that - even tried it as another user. No joy.

Do you have Motif installed?

Uwe

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Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

Kevin Miller adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:


> Tried that - even tried it as another user. No joy. But I saw today
> that SuSE released an update to Opera to 8.5 so I think I'll just
> install the packaged rpm, then run YOU. Maybe that'll work better.
>
> I'd still rather get T-bird/Firefox to behave properly though...

Hi Kevin,

If all those are not playing right then I would suspect something else
is causing it, for instance on one machine here I installed Doom3
( bear with me there is relevance ) and my sound would not work, so I
grabbed the OSS drivers and got it working that way but then nothing
else would work properly.

So I went back to alsa but there was a problem in the un-install of OSS
and it left me with no sound, a lot of applications would not start,
firefox was one and mozilla, they would get as far as putting the
window outline up then just dissappear, once I reconfigured my sound
card all was fine, now this was probably down to the sound server
setting but logically why would wrong sound stop a browser from
loading?

Point is, it may have nothing to do with your browsers but somewhere
else.

Try running the app with strace:

strace opera

and see if any good info is at the end where it segs, C&P the last say
20-30 lines ( not all as there could be hundreds )

It might give us an idea as to what is causing the prob.

HTH

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
> Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote in news:L1_Ze.888
> $jT.398@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:
>
>>Tried that - even tried it as another user. No joy.
>
> Do you have Motif installed?
>
> Uwe
>
Not that I'm aware of. Might be if it's part of the stock SuSE intall.
But I did get Opera going - see my reply to Basketcaise...

....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska

baskitcaise wrote:
> Kevin Miller adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>
>>Tried that - even tried it as another user. No joy. But I saw today
>>that SuSE released an update to Opera to 8.5 so I think I'll just
>>install the packaged rpm, then run YOU. Maybe that'll work better.
>>
>>I'd still rather get T-bird/Firefox to behave properly though...
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> If all those are not playing right then I would suspect something else
> is causing it, for instance on one machine here I installed Doom3
> ( bear with me there is relevance ) and my sound would not work, so I
> grabbed the OSS drivers and got it working that way but then nothing
> else would work properly.
>
> So I went back to alsa but there was a problem in the un-install of OSS
> and it left me with no sound, a lot of applications would not start,
> firefox was one and mozilla, they would get as far as putting the
> window outline up then just dissappear, once I reconfigured my sound
> card all was fine, now this was probably down to the sound server
> setting but logically why would wrong sound stop a browser from
> loading?
>
> Point is, it may have nothing to do with your browsers but somewhere
> else.
>
> Try running the app with strace:
>
> strace opera
>
> and see if any good info is at the end where it segs, C&P the last say
> 20-30 lines ( not all as there could be hundreds )
>
> It might give us an idea as to what is causing the prob.
>
> HTH
>

I got it going. I uninstalled the Opera rpm, installed the SuSE rpm,
ran YOU, discovered it was v8.1 (bannerware) not 8.5 like I thought.
Uninstalled it, and reinstalled 8.5 and for whatever reason it worked.
Can't figure out how to make it my default browser but at least it's
running.

Thanks for the pointer - next time I have an obstinate program I'll try
the strace command...

....Kevin.
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska

Kevin Miller <atftb@alaska.net> wrote in newscn_e.2258$jT.447@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> Can't figure out how to make it my default browser but at least it's
> running.

KDE? Control Center, KDE Components, File Associations, Text, HTML
(etc.). Push Opera to the top of the list.

HTH
Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
> Kevin Miller <atftb@alaska.net> wrote in newscn_e.2258$jT.447@prv-
> forum2.provo.novell.com:
>
>>Can't figure out how to make it my default browser but at least it's
>>running.
>
> KDE? Control Center, KDE Components, File Associations, Text, HTML
> (etc.). Push Opera to the top of the list.
>
> HTH
> Uwe
>
Been there done that, bought the T-shirt. No matter what I set it to,
T-Bird opens Firefox. Weird huh?

Oh well. Shortly I'll blow it all away and install OpenSuSE 10 and find
something else to confuse me. <g>

Thanks...

....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska