I have Tumbleweed 64 bit KDE based on openSUSE 12.1.
I access a share trading site daily where charts are presented in my web browser. The charts are dynamic, constantly updating prices in real time. These are presumably flash based graphs (tell me if I’m wrong).
Yesterday these web charts stopped working in Tumbleweed. I restored an earlier root partition image dated 12th February. The web charts won’t work in that either, which is really strange because they only stopped working yesterday in the current version of the root partition.
I checked if it was a problem in my user account by creating a new user. The charts don’t work in the fresh/new account.
I checked in windows, they work in windows.
I checked in openSUSE 12.1 VirtualBox 32 bit, fully up to date. They work in 12.1 VM.
I checked in my netbook 32 bit 12.1. They work there.
Can you suggest what I should try now to fix this in Tumbleweed?
Update: I took the version of Tumbleweed right back to 12.1 by disabling the Tumbleweed repos, enabling the 12.1 repos and running zypper dup to roll it back to 12.1. The charts still don’t work. This points to trouble (perhaps in java) in the root partition.
It works in two versions of 12.1. a VM and a stock standard install. It’s just bad in Tumbleweed. Probably in the java component on the root partition, which I’m about to root out and see if it fixes it.
I see you have 2 lines of questioning open on this
But might it be a change at the site, rather than something at your end.
You said:
Yesterday these web charts stopped working in Tumbleweed. I restored an earlier root partition image dated 12th February. The web charts won’t work in that either, which is really strange because they only stopped working yesterday in the current version of the root partition
I just installed openSUSE 12.1 to test, not in a VM, on a regular partition. It worked fine with the site. Then I applied the standard updates to make it current, and it stopped working with the site. There were about three historical versions of flash in the “update” repo so I took flash backwards one by one. None of them allowed the site to work. So I took it right back to the version in the openSUSE repo (not the “updates” repo) and it still wouldn’t work. So once it is “poisoned” so to spead, it stays poisoned.
All this while, the site is still working if I use any of the four windows boxes in the house. And the site works if I use a KDE 11.4 VM that I have, and it works with my 32 bit openSUSE 12.1 netbook. The last two, the KDE VM and the netbook have all the current updates applied.
My next test is to take out the NVidia card and use the VGA on the motherboard.
(I’ve gotta have this working by tomorrow or I’ll be using windows – shock! horror!)
I’ve tried the flash from the Adobe site. And taken out the Nvidia card. And reinstalled 12.1. And copied old Tumbleweed images onto the root partition.
If I install fresh, it works until the online updates are applied.
I’m now going to try installing 11.4 because I need to do some work tomorrow on that site and don’t want to use windows to get it done.
