[SLE] Recent Gnome / GTK Update (?) Leads to Application Hangs?
Hi, I reported here a few days ago that whenever I launch Gnumeric it hangs very early on, showing only a mostly blank window. I've discovered other instances of what appears to be the same or very similar symptom (application hangs and must be killed). It happens to Mozilla (also a GTK application) when I load certain pages, though I don't know what it is about some pages that trigger the symptom. Now I've got the most disruptive manifestation of this symptom yet: After updating with the newest kernel security patch via YOU I cannot reconfigure VMware as needed when a new kernel is installed (by running vmware-config.pl after kernel "make cloneconfig; make prepare"). When I run vmware-config.pl, I see only this: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- % vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done Virtual ethernet done Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries. -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- And that's it. It hangs at this point. This has now moved far beyond being an annoyance and I really need to solve the problem. It appears that after a YaST update / install a week ago this problem appeared, but no one has been able to tell me how to discover a history what YaST installed. This is happening on a 10.0 installation on which I've installed the supplementary KDE and Gnome packages. I could surely use some help with this... Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 03 June 2006 18:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
but no one has been able to tell me how to discover a history what YaST installed.
How about /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM? Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Leen, On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:18, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 03 June 2006 18:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
but no one has been able to tell me how to discover a history what YaST installed.
How about /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM?
Yeah. That's the one. Thanks. I wonder if either of these could have been the culprit: 2006-05-28 08:19:05 qdbm-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok 2006-05-28 08:19:09 qdbm-java-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok They're the only installs in the timeframe during which the problem appeared. The output of "ldd /opt/gnome/bin/gnumeric" does not include any of the qdbm shared object library.
Leen
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On Saturday 03 June 2006 19:12, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Leen,
On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:18, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 03 June 2006 18:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
but no one has been able to tell me how to discover a history what YaST installed.
How about /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM?
Yeah. That's the one.
Thanks.
I wonder if either of these could have been the culprit:
2006-05-28 08:19:05 qdbm-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok 2006-05-28 08:19:09 qdbm-java-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok
They're the only installs in the timeframe during which the problem appeared. The output of "ldd /opt/gnome/bin/gnumeric" does not include any of the qdbm shared object library.
I suppose the best way to tell is to uninstall those 2 packages (if possible) and see if the symptoms have disappeared. I would even risk 'rpm -e --force' - but that's easy to say ;). Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 03 June 2006 10:31, Leendert Meyer wrote:
...
I wonder if either of these could have been the culprit:
2006-05-28 08:19:05 qdbm-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok 2006-05-28 08:19:09 qdbm-java-1.8.58-1.guru.suse100.i686.rpm installed ok
They're the only installs in the timeframe during which the problem appeared. The output of "ldd /opt/gnome/bin/gnumeric" does not include any of the qdbm shared object library.
I suppose the best way to tell is to uninstall those 2 packages (if possible) and see if the symptoms have disappeared. I would even risk 'rpm -e --force' - but that's easy to say ;).
Frankly, I'm just happy to have things working again. I think I'll leave well enough alone and just quash my curiosity on this one.
Leen
Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Hello again, On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I reported here a few days ago that whenever I launch Gnumeric it hangs very early on, showing only a mostly blank window. I've discovered other instances of what appears to be the same or very similar symptom (application hangs and must be killed). It happens to Mozilla (also a GTK application) when I load certain pages, though I don't know what it is about some pages that trigger the symptom.
Now I've got the most disruptive manifestation of this symptom yet: After updating with the newest kernel security patch via YOU I cannot reconfigure VMware as needed when a new kernel is installed (by running vmware-config.pl after kernel "make cloneconfig; make prepare"). When I run vmware-config.pl, I see only this:
...
Odd. After the reboot with the new kernel, Gnumeric no longer hangs on start-up. I guess it remains to be seen whether the hangs in Mozilla are still occurring, since they're not as predictable as the Gnumeric hang was. So maybe these are different symptoms after all. I'm still stumped, however about the problem with the VMware configuration script. Has anyone else running VMware on SuSE 10.0 who has installed the latest kernel via YOU encountered this hang in vmware-config.pl? Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Hi, On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:19, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hello again,
On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I reported here a few days ago that whenever I launch Gnumeric it hangs very early on, showing only a mostly blank window. ...
Now I've got the most disruptive manifestation of this symptom yet: After updating with the newest kernel security patch via YOU I cannot reconfigure VMware as needed when a new kernel is installed (by running vmware-config.pl after kernel "make cloneconfig; make prepare"). When I run vmware-config.pl, I see only this:
...
Odd. After the reboot with the new kernel, Gnumeric no longer hangs on start-up. I guess it remains to be seen whether the hangs in Mozilla are still occurring, since they're not as predictable as the Gnumeric hang was. So maybe these are different symptoms after all.
I'm still stumped, however about the problem with the VMware configuration script. Has anyone else running VMware on SuSE 10.0 who has installed the latest kernel via YOU encountered this hang in vmware-config.pl?
D'Oh! D'Oh! D'Oh! Pardon me while I kick myself in the ass a few times ... There. I've done this before and I really should know better. In my compulsive drive to keep records of all this sort of thing, I ran the VMware configurator with its output piped to "tee log-file". So of course when it comes time for it to ask me questions, I don't see the prompt ('cause, I suppose, there's no newline at the end of the prompt) and think the program has hung. This time the red herring of the line about "Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries." and my concern about the GTK applications hanging led me to overlook the real problem. Re-running the configurator without output redirection allowed everything to proceed normally. Sorry for the false alarm. Randall Schulz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 03 June 2006 18:43, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I ran the VMware configurator with its output piped to "tee log-file". So of course when it comes time for it to ask me questions, I don't see the prompt ('cause, I suppose, there's no newline at the end of the prompt) and think the program has hung.
A few days ago I had something similar: "make -C /usr/src/linux oldconfig" doesn't like to be redirected either when it wants user input. It took me some time to realize what was happening... ;) Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 03 June 2006 12:19 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'm still stumped, however about the problem with the VMware configuration script. Has anyone else running VMware on SuSE 10.0 who has installed the latest kernel via YOU encountered this hang in vmware-config.pl?
Running 10.0 here on kernel 2.6.13-15.8-smp Just did the vmware-config and it worked fine. VMware is now running. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Saturday 03 June 2006 12:19 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'm still stumped, however about the problem with the VMware configuration script. Has anyone else running VMware on SuSE 10.0 who has installed the latest kernel via YOU encountered this hang in vmware-config.pl?
I see I'm not running the latest kernel.... (having been side-tracked by 10.1 for too long) Downloading the new kernel now. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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