Firefox/Youtube/Suse 13.1/Gnome BUG?

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#1

Hello!

I am a new Suse user - only been on since 12.3. I am now on 13.1 - with Gnome.

I am noticing that periodically, when I am using Firefox and watching YouTube…when I go to switch YouTube videos…as soon as I click on another video to watch…I will instantly get a black screen with some system messages (not sure what they are, they don’t stay on screen long enough) and then I am brought to a Suse LOGIN screen. I can log back into Suse and bring Firefox back up and it saves where I was last…but, this is happening periodically now since upgrading to 13.1. I believe I have had this problem happen now at least 10 times - although I can’t 100% reproduce it.

Anyone have thoughts on that?

I am also, apparently, struggling with HTML5 videos on YouTube on both Firefox and Chromium. It sits and “loads” the video but never plays. Seems only HTML5 videos.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Ken

#2

Your specs for GPU and Driver?

#3

I’m sorry. I’m a newbie.

How do I get to those specs in Suse 13.1/Gnome?

It is a Dell Inspiron 1545 - built in GPU I believe.

Ken

#4

I think this might help ya…

Intel Mobile 4 chipset Integrated Graphics
Driver shows: i915

Ken

#5

Did you update the system yet since you installed?

su -
zypper up

There was a buggy release of 13.1 for Intel users.

#6

Hey! Thanks for the reply!

I have not, will try that today.

Does updating the system using the command line you provided do the same thing that my “updates” I get prompted to download and install when I log into Suse do? If so, I am very updated when it comes to those updates.

K

#7

I ran zypper up. There were some updates. The only one I saw that stood out was with Java.

What is the difference between zypper up and using the Yast updater?

Ken

#8

Online updates and zypper up are the same

#9

On 12/04/2013 11:26 PM, caf4926 pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Online updates and zypper up are the same
>
>
NO, they are not. “Online Updates” and “zypper patch” are the same.

Ken

#10

Out of curiousity…before I did a zypper, I checked my online updates which showed none. When I ran zypper, there were definitely some, including Java.

If they are the same, wouldn’t the online update also notify me that there were updates just like zypper did?

Is there perhaps something broken with online updates perhaps or something?

K

#11

no patch is different from updates. in patch you don’t get new version just fixes to current versions.

#12

Oh, gotcha.

So, it all depends on whether I have the software installed on my machine or not…

#13

On 12/05/2013 03:46 PM, gogalthorp pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> no patch is different from updates. in patch you don’t get new version
> just fixes to current versions.
>
>

I’ll repeat this until people get it right:

“Online Updates” (in YaST) and “zypper patch” are the same.

If you go into YaST and click on “Online Updates” (often referred to as
YOU) you will only get patches to installed packages. There may be other
patches that are not installed because you do not have the corresponding
package installed. If you go into YaST/Package Management you will find
updates to packages only from non-official repos. There will never be
“updates” found in the official repos (OSS, NON-OSS) as they never get
updated except via the official update repos provided via “YOU” or
“zypper patch”.

Ken

#14

I always (and only this way) update my system using Yast > Software (package) management for both official and non-official updates because of course the oss-update and non-oss update repo are available from here.
So you might want to rethink your above statement (or at least reword it). :wink:

#15

On 2013-12-06 01:03, Ken Schneider wrote:

> I’ll repeat this until people get it right:
>
> “Online Updates” (in YaST) and “zypper patch” are the same.
>
> If you go into YaST and click on “Online Updates” (often referred to as
> YOU) you will only get patches to installed packages. There may be other
> patches that are not installed because you do not have the corresponding
> package installed. If you go into YaST/Package Management you will find
> updates to packages only from non-official repos. There will never be
> “updates” found in the official repos (OSS, NON-OSS) as they never get
> updated except via the official update repos provided via “YOU” or
> “zypper patch”.

Right.

Zypper up is more or less equivalent to go into yast package management
or you, then display all the installed packages, select all in this
list, update if newer.

Which is an operation that you can do on only one repository if you want.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)