Hi Guys,
Last night my suse8.1came to a halt due to a mysterious 'HD full' condition.
Upon reboot things seemed OK but there were a few problems. This one regards
OPERA on KDE 3.0.5. After the reboot clicking the OPERA icon yeilded the
'in-process' cursor with the little OPERA flickering icon, but after 30 or so
seconds nothing happens; everything is like before clicking the icon. This
OPERA is the one shipped with suse8.1. I used YAST2 to un-install, then
re-install OPERA from the suse CDs. Same prob = The 'in-process' cursor runs
for a while then nothing. Next I used YAST2 to un-install OPERA, then d/l'ed
the 6.11 vers of OPERA from the OPERA site, used Konqi to start the YAST2 RPM
installer which ran OK.
Now here is where it gets strange == When I started the new OPERA it worked
fine, but it opened TWO instances, one looking the first start of a newly
installed OPERA, the other one opened to the web page I was browsing last
night!
During my use of SuSE 8.1 since I installed it I have seen a dozen or so
instances of an installed app NOT starting as described above; the wait
cursor 'spins' the mini icon for the app for 20-30 secs then nothing. I have
only remedied this by reinstalling the app. But todays OPERA prob is the
first one to not respond to a simple reinstall; it needed installing the
newer vers from OPERA home page.
Is this problem happening on your systems? Is there a KDE bug reported on this
prob?
Feeling a bit freaked out .............. PeterB
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What you didn't do (at least you didn't say so ) was to check whether Opera was still running when you first tried to bring it up. Even though there may not be a window showing for it, Opera was probably still running (or had been started by your reboot). The icon-cursor that dies after about 30 minutes when you try to start *anything* up is usually a symtom of the fact that the app is probably still running in a hung state or some other state. us ps aux | grep <app-name> to determine if it's still running and if so, kill it.
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