Debian 4.0 Opera not displayable?

Jens Schüßler wrote:
> * regexes <regexes DeleteThis @gmail.com> [03-07-08 20:31]:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Hmmm... I don't know how to explain this but Opera is not viewable in
>> the Window Manager (I use Enlightenment).
>>
>> I had an Opera (9.50) session running and then changed the theme of the
>> WM. Opera then disappeared. Since I could not stop it manually, I
>> killed the opera process and restarted it. It starts fine but I don't
>> have a "GUI", I only see the process when running a "ps -ef". Then I
>> rebooted... no difference, process runs but no "GUI".
>>
>> Ok... I thought I'd update to 9.51. I still have the same problem. All
>> other programs run without any problems... and I can see them.
>>
>> Any ideas here?
>
> Not much. Do you use the shared ore the static opera.deb?
> Did it work with 9.27. Maybe you should give the static one a try...
>
> Regards
> Jens

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had a
problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one that
was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...

regexes

regexes wrote:
> Jens Schüßler wrote:
>> * regexes <regexes RemoveThis @gmail.com> [03-07-08 20:31]:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hmmm... I don't know how to explain this but Opera is not viewable in
>>> the Window Manager (I use Enlightenment).
>>>
>>> I had an Opera (9.50) session running and then changed the theme of
>>> the WM. Opera then disappeared. Since I could not stop it manually,
>>> I killed the opera process and restarted it. It starts fine but I
>>> don't have a "GUI", I only see the process when running a "ps -ef".
>>> Then I rebooted... no difference, process runs but no "GUI".
>>>
>>> Ok... I thought I'd update to 9.51. I still have the same problem.
>>> All other programs run without any problems... and I can see them.
>>>
>>> Any ideas here?
>>
>> Not much. Do you use the shared ore the static opera.deb?
>> Did it work with 9.27. Maybe you should give the static one a try...
>>
>> Regards
>> Jens
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had a
> problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one that
> was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
> opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...
>
> regexes

I just tried running it as root... the browser runs fine that way.
Could there be some strange permissions problem going on? I installed
the .deb package using "dpkg -i" (which I have always done) and never
had the problem before... I'm baffled...

regexes wrote:
> regexes wrote:
>> Jens Schüßler wrote:
>>> * regexes <regexes RemoveThis @gmail.com> [03-07-08 20:31]:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm... I don't know how to explain this but Opera is not viewable
>>>> in the Window Manager (I use Enlightenment).
>>>>
>>>> I had an Opera (9.50) session running and then changed the theme of
>>>> the WM. Opera then disappeared. Since I could not stop it
>>>> manually, I killed the opera process and restarted it. It starts
>>>> fine but I don't have a "GUI", I only see the process when running a
>>>> "ps -ef". Then I rebooted... no difference, process runs but no "GUI".
>>>>
>>>> Ok... I thought I'd update to 9.51. I still have the same problem.
>>>> All other programs run without any problems... and I can see them.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas here?
>>>
>>> Not much. Do you use the shared ore the static opera.deb?
>>> Did it work with 9.27. Maybe you should give the static one a try...
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jens
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had a
>> problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one that
>> was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
>> opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...
>>
>> regexes
>
> I just tried running it as root... the browser runs fine that way. Could
> there be some strange permissions problem going on? I installed the
> .deb package using "dpkg -i" (which I have always done) and never had
> the problem before... I'm baffled...

Hmmm.. I deinstalled opera (dpkg -r opera) and then reinstalled Opera
9.50. It works fine now. Possibly a bug in the deb package of 9.51?

regexes

9.51 installed OK for me on Ubuntu. However, I always leave the old
configuration files when upgrading. I presume /.opera is in your home
folder?

Terry_P

* regexes <regexes DeleteThis @gmail.com> [04-07-08 19:04]:
>
> Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had a
> problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one that
> was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
> opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...


ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/951/final/en/i386/shared

You could also put 'http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free' into your
/etc/apt/sources.list, then you have the choice between shared and
static with aptitude. The shared package is just named opera and the
other one opera-static.

Jens

Terry_P wrote:
> 9.51 installed OK for me on Ubuntu. However, I always leave the old
> configuration files when upgrading. I presume /.opera is in your home
> folder?
>
> Terry_P

Yep... /.opera is in my home folder..

Jens Schüßler wrote:
> * regexes <regexes RemoveThis @gmail.com> [04-07-08 19:04]:
>> Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had a
>> problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one that
>> was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
>> opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...
>
>
> ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/951/final/en/i386/shared
>
> You could also put 'http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free' into your
> /etc/apt/sources.list, then you have the choice between shared and
> static with aptitude. The shared package is just named opera and the
> other one opera-static.
>
> Jens

Ok... Thanks for the tip!

regexes

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:05:39 -0400, regexes <regexes.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm... running it as root works (just like last time). So I ran it
> from the command line and the following appears:
>
> ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded:
> ignored.
> ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded:
> ignored.

Those are normal error messages, as the bash script /usr/bin/opera still
tries to load a very old version of java, prior to actually starting opera.

> GUI works though. Although this error message does not appear when
> running it as a "normal" user, could it possibly have something to do
> with the problem?

Any chance you've put a file called opera in ~/bin ?

As the regular user, try running, at the command line, "bash -x -v /usr/bin/opera".

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:22:33 -0400, regexes <regexes DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> exec "$OPERA_BINARYDIR/opera" "$@"
> + exec /usr/lib/opera/9.51/opera
> It stops here and no GUI.

Ok. Definitely getting the right version. Try running

opera --debugxerror

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:58:43 -0400, regexes <regexes.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> mymachine:myuser:~> /usr/bin/opera --debugxerror
> opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
> Major opcode: 20
> Minor opcode: 0
> Resource id: 0

I get the same, followed by messages about the plugins, then the gui.

Have you killed all running opera processes?

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:04:50 -0400, regexes <regexes.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> "ps -ef | grep opera" returns no hits... so yeah... no opera processes
> are running (unless there called something else)

Could still be some orphaned threads, that should show with "ps -eLf|grep opera"

Can't hurt to try running "killall opera". It should return
"opera:no process killed"

I'm running out ideas. Only things I can think of trying, would be a reboot
which should not make any difference, but can't hurt to try, or perhaps trying
out the newest beta version, 9.52 build 2065 from
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:05:21 -0400, regexes <regexes RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> No luck.. I get exactly the same behavior with 2065. I'm at a loss
> now... ????

Perhaps there's a corrupted file in ~/.opera. Try running "opera -pd ~/testopera".

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regexes wrote:
> regexes wrote:
>> regexes wrote:
>>> Jens Schüßler wrote:
>>>> * regexes <regexes.DeleteThis@gmail.com> [03-07-08 20:31]:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm... I don't know how to explain this but Opera is not viewable
>>>>> in the Window Manager (I use Enlightenment).
>>>>>
>>>>> I had an Opera (9.50) session running and then changed the theme of
>>>>> the WM. Opera then disappeared. Since I could not stop it
>>>>> manually, I killed the opera process and restarted it. It starts
>>>>> fine but I don't have a "GUI", I only see the process when running
>>>>> a "ps -ef". Then I rebooted... no difference, process runs but no
>>>>> "GUI".
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok... I thought I'd update to 9.51. I still have the same
>>>>> problem. All other programs run without any problems... and I can
>>>>> see them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas here?
>>>>
>>>> Not much. Do you use the shared ore the static opera.deb?
>>>> Did it work with 9.27. Maybe you should give the static one a try...
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Jens
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. It worked with 9.27.. in fact, I've never had
>>> a problem with the browser before. I downloaded the "default" one
>>> that was offered from the Opera website. According to aptitude it's
>>> opera-static. Where can I get the shared one? I couldn't find it...
>>>
>>> regexes
>>
>> I just tried running it as root... the browser runs fine that way.
>> Could there be some strange permissions problem going on? I installed
>> the .deb package using "dpkg -i" (which I have always done) and never
>> had the problem before... I'm baffled...
>
> Hmmm.. I deinstalled opera (dpkg -r opera) and then reinstalled Opera
> 9.50. It works fine now. Possibly a bug in the deb package of 9.51?
>
> regexes

Well, I thought that solved my problem. It worked fine the last 10
days. I just tried to running it and now the GUI doesn't appear
anymore. The process is running and I've made no configuration changes
since then. Actually, it worked this morning and this evening it does
not. There are no entries in any of the logs... Anybody have any idea?

regexes