Opera Won't Start!!!

Opera Won't Start!!!

I run Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, and for some reason, Opera will not start. It did when I first installed it, but then for some reason it stopped. Now when I click the icon my cpu usage goes up to 50% - 100% and just stays there, with no window open or anything. This is very frustrating and probably my fault but what can I do to fix it?

First open a terminal, type "opera" and see if an error message is displayed.

Presuming that doesn't work other than the usual messages about libjvm.so and libawt.so and some meaningless segfault, the next step is to start Opera with an empty personal directory - create an empty directory within your temp folder, say /temp/opera, then start Opera from a terminal with the line "opera -pd /temp/opera". (That'll be like running Opera for the first time.)

There's several things can be done from there ... did you have mail or RSS configured? You can try starting Opera without mail and see if that works. The commandline for that is "opera -nomail" ...

Which version of Opera are we talking about here, 9.27 or 9.5b2?

Howdy ya'll! I tried installing the opera 9.5 beta 2 deb on kubuntu 8.04 LTS (KDE 3.5.9) today and although the install went without error messages opera crashed each time I tried to open it. I got the exact same error as quoted by sgunhouse when I ran opera through a terminal:-

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. Segmentation fault

I'd love to try this new opera release. How is it that the debs are up for download when they don't actually work?

sgunhouse, can you help me out? What have I got to do?

Thanks for your help! Running it in an empty temp file worked fine, but I can't run it through the nomail thing. I actually dont use the mail so that wouldn't make sense anyway. You said there are a lot of things I can do from here, so please help out. I use Opera 9.27 and there are no error messages apart form those you mentioned.

Let's see ...drastic would be to delete the entire ~/.opera "profile" folder, which would be the same as running with a blank personal directory. Obviously it would work (at least once) ... but no guarantee that whatever the issue is won't return. Less drastic - do a "profile reset", delete the file ~/.opera/opera6.ini and then start Opera. Similar to deleteing the profile, except that your bookmarks, saved passwords, login cookies and such are kept.

A fairly common issue in Windows versions of Opera ... if Opera actually crashed the previous time, then the session file could be corrupt. You might try deleteing ~/.opera/sessions/autosave.win but odds of it actually helping your problem (whatever it is) are somewhat smaller.

An issue that can happen if you upgrade from 9.27 to 9.50b2 (which doesn't sound like you, but just to cover the bases) is a mail conversion error - yes, even if you don't use mail. If you actually don't use mail (or chat or RSS) then you could go to ~/.opera/mail/ and delete all files and folders you find there.

I suppose it couldn't hurt to start with that last suggestion and work your way up until one of them works.

Don't know what the problem was, but I'm happy with just clearing out the /home/.opera file and starting fresh. Thanks for your help.

Originally posted by erythrocyte:

Howdy ya'll! I tried installing the opera 9.5 beta 2 deb on kubuntu 8.04 LTS (KDE 3.5.9) today and although the install went without error messages opera crashed each time I tried to open it. I got the exact same error as quoted by sgunhouse when I ran opera through a terminal:-

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. Segmentation fault

I'd love to try this new opera release. How is it that the debs are up for download when they don't actually work?

sgunhouse, can you help me out? What have I got to do?

Ok, I figured out a way to stop the libawt.so and ld.so errors. All that was required was an installation of Sun Java. Kubuntu 8.04 LTS installs OpenJDK which doesn't seem to work with this Opera release.

I still get a segmentation fault and the browser crashes seconds after opening it.

Any help anyone?

Did you try the various steps listed in my last post?

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Did you try the various steps listed in my last post?

Yes, I did. I tried deleting the ~/.opera folder and then starting opera again. Even tried the "opera -pd /temp/opera" thing. No luck .

I have same problem with opera in my system. It crashes with segmentation fault all the time especially when i open gmail.com. One more thing was i use authenticated proxy server for my browsing. Is opera having issues with proxy server in these beta builds. I already filed a bug report (bug-324816).

I have the same problem.
After the last update of Ubuntu Hardy Heron Opera wont start anymore.

I chatted with a couple of folks on Kubuntu's IRC channel and based on their feedback, it looks to me as if Opera 9.5 Beta 2 on Hardy amd-64bit works awesome. I think this problem is specific to 32-bit versions of Hardy. My Hardy is 32-bit. What's yours ADHDer and kallu_be?

BTW I tried the latest weekly snapshot. No luck . I tried all the debs out there.

Originally posted by erythrocyte:

BTW I tried the latest weekly snapshot. No luck. I tried all the debs out there.

Does the segfault happen if you use a static tarball (extract the tarball and run the ./opera script from the extracted directory)?.

More info on your system might help (graphics card drivers you are using, proxy if any, is it a Hardy upgrade from a previous Hardy beta/rc version, etc).

Originally posted by Tracio:

Originally posted by erythrocyte:

BTW I tried the latest weekly snapshot. No luck. I tried all the debs out there.

Does the segfault happen if you use a static tarball (extract the tarball and run the ./opera script from the extracted directory)?.

More info on your system might help (graphics card drivers you are using, proxy if any, is it a Hardy upgrade from a previous Hardy beta/rc version, etc).

Thank you for your response Tracio. I tried all options - used the tarball too. Unfortunately, nothing works at the moment. I have a SiS motherboard with everything built in. Which means my graphics driver is also SiS. There is no 3D. As for Java, I have both OpenJDK and Sun Java, but Sun Java is set to default. I have clean install of Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS. I don't use a proxy.

Can you please let me know what commands you'd like me to run?

Here's my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL Media IO]
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
00:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
00:0b.0 Communication controller: Analog Devices SM56 PCI modem
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

dmesg output:

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic)
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
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[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000eff0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000eff0000 - 000000000eff3000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000eff3000 - 000000000f000000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 239MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 61424) 0 entries of 256 used
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[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->    61424
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[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->    61424
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[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 447 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 56881 pages, LIFO batch:15
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F7570 checksum 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F7570, 0014 (r0 JETWAY)
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 0EFF3000, 0028 (r1 JETWAY AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0EFF3040, 0074 (r1 JETWAY AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 0EFF30C0, 38B3 (r1 JETWAY AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000C)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0EFF0000, 0040
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f000000:efc00000)
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 60945
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=081d11c3-243e-4f1d-b0a1-c981407284e6 ro quiet splash vga=791
[    0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[    0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
[    0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[    0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
[    0.000000] Detected 1700.131 MHz processor.
[   25.810764] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[   25.810773] console [tty0] enabled
[   25.811081] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   25.811374] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[   25.821960] Memory: 231204k/245696k available (2157k kernel code, 13936k reserved, 998k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[   25.821976] virtual kernel memory layout:
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[   25.821989]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc031b5a4   (2157 kB)
[   25.821994] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[   25.822058] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[   25.902050] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3403.82 BogoMIPS (lpj=6807656)
[   25.902100] Security Framework initialized
[   25.902114] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   25.902142] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[   25.902149] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[   25.902163] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   25.902434] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   25.902458] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[   25.902463] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
[   25.902468] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[   25.902472] CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   25.902494] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[   25.902521] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[   25.918771] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[   25.921674] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[   25.921938] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[   26.494164] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[   26.494283] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[   26.496610] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20)
[   26.636484] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02
[   26.636497] SMP motherboard not detected.
[   26.741748] Brought up 1 CPUs
[   26.741780] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[   26.741786]  domain 0: span 01
[   26.741789]   groups: 01
[   26.742224] net_namespace: 64 bytes
[   26.742240] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[   26.743305] Time: 14:55:57  Date: 05/17/08
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[   26.743849] EISA bus registered
[   26.743900] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   26.756762] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=1
[   26.756766] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[   26.756768] Setting up standard PCI resources
[   26.770942] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[   26.776107] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[   26.776118] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[   26.776146] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
[   26.785328] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   26.785754] Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
[   26.786918] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[   26.816914] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[   26.817078] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[   26.817237] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
[   26.817387] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[   26.817540] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
[   26.817722] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   26.817875] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   26.818029] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[   26.818350] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[   26.818423] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[   26.818448] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[   26.824485] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[   26.824492] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[   26.824501] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[   26.825006] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   26.825016] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[   26.889605] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   26.889611] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[   26.889801] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[   26.893584] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[   26.901710] system 00:00: iomem range 0xd5800-0xd7fff has been reserved
[   26.901715] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
[   26.901719] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
[   26.901724] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[   26.901728] system 00:00: iomem range 0xeff0000-0xeffffff could not be reserved
[   26.901736] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
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[   26.932721]   MEM window: e0000000-e00fffff
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[   26.932777] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   26.969727] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[   26.970163] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[   26.970261] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[   26.970355] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[   26.970360] TCP reno registered
[   26.981868] checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[   27.494361]  it is
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[   28.082843] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   28.082877] audit(1211036158.020:1): initialized
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[   28.088199] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[   28.442168] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[   28.568217] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[   28.568419] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[   28.568676] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   28.569127] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[   28.570940] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   28.571923] 00:09: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
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[   28.574690] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
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[   28.580974] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   28.581269] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[   28.581283] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[   28.581296] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[   28.581315] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[   28.581322] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[   28.581326] cpuidle: using governor menu
[   28.581533] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   28.581599] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
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[   28.582006]   hash matches device ptyyb
[   28.582120] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[   28.582124] EDD information not available.
[   28.582983] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[   28.599635] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
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[   30.228106] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[   30.243936] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
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[   31.523209] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   31.535911] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
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[   31.574492] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[   31.575213] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
[   31.575223] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
[   31.575228] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.2[D] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   31.575259] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: OHCI Host Controller
[   31.576074] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[   31.576122] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 11, io mem 0xe0100000
[   31.595451] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
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[   31.633281] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   31.633298] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[   31.718911] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[   31.735445] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
[   31.735455] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
[   31.735460] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.3[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   31.735489] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.3: OHCI Host Controller
[   31.735570] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[   31.735600] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.3: irq 10, io mem 0xe0101000
[   31.735739] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[   31.793144] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.793204] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   31.793220] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[   31.895362] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
[   31.895374] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   31.895398] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: UHCI Host Controller
[   31.895480] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[   31.895519] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000e000
[   31.895757] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.895805] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   31.895818] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[   31.906127] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[   31.931093] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[   31.999351] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
[   31.999361] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   31.999384] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: UHCI Host Controller
[   31.999458] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[   31.999495] uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: irq 10, io base 0x0000e400
[   31.999743] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.999790] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   31.999803] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[   32.103460] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
[   32.103471] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.2[C] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   32.103500] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: EHCI Host Controller
[   32.103594] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[   32.103676] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: irq 11, io mem 0xe0102000
[   32.114716] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[   32.115009] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   32.115059] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   32.115074] hub 5-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[   32.219138] 8139cp 0000:00:0d.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
[   32.219152] 8139cp 0000:00:0d.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
[   32.222722] pata_sis 0000:00:02.5: version 0.5.2
[   32.226348] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[   32.228599] scsi0 : pata_sis
[   32.230832] scsi1 : pata_sis
[   32.231998] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x4000 irq 14
[   32.232003] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x4008 irq 15
[   32.551793] ata1.00: ATA-5: WDC WD400EB-00CPF0, 06.04G06, max UDMA/100
[   32.551801] ata1.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   32.551849] ata1.01: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B, 1.02, max UDMA/33
[   32.551874] ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[   32.567633] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[   32.730861] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[   33.146154] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[   33.230454] ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-W162C, TS11, max UDMA/33
[   33.230499] ata2.01: ATAPI: LG       DVD-ROM DRD-8160B, 1.01, max UDMA/33
[   33.296218] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   33.426226] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[   33.590322] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33
[   33.590602] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD400EB-00CP 06.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   33.591091] scsi 0:0:1:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8525B  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   33.592335] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162C TS11 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   33.593091] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM            LG       DVD-ROM DRD8160B 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   33.597924] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   33.598854] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:08:a1:7b:bd:e0, IRQ 11
[   33.598861] eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[   33.658720] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   33.658920] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 78165360 512-byte hardware sectors (40021 MB)
[   33.658946] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   33.658951] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   33.658986] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   33.659093] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 78165360 512-byte hardware sectors (40021 MB)
[   33.659114] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   33.659118] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   33.659150] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   33.659161]  sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   33.690689]  sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
[   33.763771] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   33.781077] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   33.781116] sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[   33.781151] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[   33.781185] scsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[   33.784040] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   33.784053] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   33.784191] sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[   33.794445] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   33.794585] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[   33.797199] sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   33.797346] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2
[   46.926014] Attempting manual resume
[   46.926023] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:6
[   46.926026] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[   46.926399] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[   46.979857] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   46.979894] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[  160.791183] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[  160.966769] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[  161.517511] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[  161.607772] agpgart: Detected SiS chipset - id:1616
[  161.631209] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
[  162.089359] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[  162.113052] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[  162.113249] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
[  162.121158] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[  162.253253] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input4
[  162.329082] sis96x_smbus 0000:00:02.1: SiS96x SMBus base address: 0x1080
[  164.041925] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
[  174.706982] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[  174.707041] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[  180.555195] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[  180.555670] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[  180.869045] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
[  181.309273] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 5
[  181.309283] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
[  181.309288] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[  181.629938] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54908 usecs
[  181.629946] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[  182.609146] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[  182.707306] Adding 506008k swap on /dev/sda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:506008k
[  184.511309] EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal
[  184.830618] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[  184.830689] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[  190.720783] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  228.493080] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[  228.493361] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[  228.493372] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[  229.771654] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[  230.484409] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[  230.547006] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  230.618314] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[  231.726388] No dock devices found.
[  235.131275] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[  235.131287] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[  235.540750] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[  237.012377] audit(1211016567.605:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=6054 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[  267.035913] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[  267.061837] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[  267.061849] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  267.061861] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  267.309258] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[  267.309270] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  267.823689] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[  267.823746] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[  267.823750] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 2445.383909] NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[ 4466.299790] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 4466.301166] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 4466.301189] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 4766.212025] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 4766.213184] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 4766.213205] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 4922.620819] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 4922.621505] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 4922.621519] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 5138.768575] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 5138.769642] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 5138.769663] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 5196.860441] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 5196.861596] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 5196.861618] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 6338.358157] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 6338.372713] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 6338.372738] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 6745.650789] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 6745.651842] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 6745.651863] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 7397.257742] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 7397.258903] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 7397.258924] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 7866.866712] EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "utf8" or missing value
[ 7982.227026] EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "umask=077" or missing value
[ 8030.708044] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 8030.708771] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 8030.708788] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 8075.220597] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 8075.221679] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 8075.221700] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 8209.036421] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 8209.037504] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 8209.037526] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 8570.994099] EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "umask=007" or missing value
[ 8591.578169] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 8591.579730] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 8591.579747] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 8836.061383] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 8836.062755] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 8836.062779] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 9203.848387] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 9203.849449] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 9203.849469] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 9344.272169] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 9344.273482] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 9344.273504] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 9429.212957] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 9429.214787] EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
[ 9429.214810] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Ignore the last few lines from dmesg regarding the mounting of partitions. I bet they are due to my fiddling with /etc/fstab, mount and umount .

java -version:

java version "1.6.0_06"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode, sharing)

Have you changed something in xorg.conf ?. Try starting Opera with this switches:

opera -debugxerror

opera -debuglocale

opera -debugjava

Also, post the output of

cat ~/.opera/javapath.txt

Have you been able to run Opera (9.2*, 9.5) on this machine with Ubuntu 7.10 or any other distro?.

Originally posted by Tracio:

Have you changed something in xorg.conf ?. Try starting Opera with this switches:

opera -debugxerror

opera -debuglocale

opera -debugjava

Also, post the output of

cat ~/.opera/javapath.txt

Have you been able to run Opera (9.2*, 9.5) on this machine with Ubuntu 7.10 or any other distro?.

I only added some lines regarding my screen resolution in xorg.conf. The automatically generated xorg.conf wasn't handling my screen resolution uniformly - as in, the kdm login screen used to be at an extremely high resolution, the native 1024x768 resolution switching on only after logging into KDE. And yea, opera 9.27 from the Kubuntu repositories as well as 9.5 beta 1 from Opera's website start just fine. My main problem with 9.27 is that flash doesn't work. And in 9.5 beta 1, there's this grey box phenomenon with regard to flash. Sometimes flash videos work just perfectly, other times all I get are grey boxes with audio but no picture.

For the output below, I tested using Opera 9.5 Beta 2.

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        SubSection "Display"
            Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
EndSection

opera -debugxerror (opera crashes as usual)

opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
Major opcode:  20
Minor opcode:  0
Resource id:  0x0

Segmentation fault

opera -debuglocale (opera crashes again)

opera: Locale. Retrived locales: en_IN,en
opera: Locale. Testing directory: /usr/share/opera/locale/en_IN
opera: Locale. Testing directory: /usr/share/opera/locale/en
opera: Locale. No matches, using default language: /usr/share/opera/locale/english.lng
Segmentation fault

opera -debugjava (opera crashes again)

opera: [java] There seems to be a preloaded version of Xt.
       There are workarounds for this problem in the opera
       startup script.  If that workaround fails, opera will
       most likely crash every time it tries to use Java.
       The workaround seems to be working.
       Technical explanation:
       There is a problem with the order of loading Xt and
       Java.  If Xt is loaded before libawt (part of Java),
       Java will crash when it tries to access the screen.
       The workaround is based on using LD_PRELOAD to load
       libawt.so first.

opera: [java] The Java enable flag will not be reset
       because the OPERA_FORCE_JAVA_ENABLED environment
       variable has been defined.

Segmentation fault

There is no file called javapath.txt in my ~/.opera directory.

ls -a ~/.opera

.   lock        opera6.ini     opssl6.dat     pluginpath.ini  vps
..  opera6.adr  opicacrt6.dat  opuntrust.dat  styles          widgets

If this helps, here's cat ~/.opera/pluginpath.ini

Opera Preferences version 2.1
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[Paths]
/usr/lib/opera/plugins=1
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree=1
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins=1
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins=1

Please do let me know, what additional information you'd like me to provide. Thanks!

So this is a problem with 9.5 Beta2, all previous versions (9.2* and 9.5 Beta1) worked fine with this very same xorg.conf you are using now, right?. Can you use the default xorg.conf and see whether Beta2 segfaults too?. If so, file a bug report (make sure you include a diff of the xorg.conf you are using and the opera -debugxerror output).

Hopefully it will get fixed...

BTW, try setting all your paths in ~/.opera/pluginpath.ini to the following and see whether Opera crashes:

 Opera Preferences version 2.1
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[Paths]
/usr/lib/opera/plugins=2
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree=1
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins=2
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins=2

Originally posted by Tracio:

So this is a problem with 9.5 Beta2, all previous versions (9.2* and 9.5 Beta1) worked fine with this very same xorg.conf you are using now, right?. Can you use the default xorg.conf and see whether Beta2 segfaults too?. If so, file a bug report (make sure you include a diff of the xorg.conf you are using and the opera -debugxerror output).

Hopefully it will get fixed...

BTW, try setting all your paths in ~/.opera/pluginpath.ini to the following and see whether Opera crashes:

 Opera Preferences version 2.1
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[Paths]
/usr/lib/opera/plugins=2
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree=1
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins=2
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins=2

Yes Tracio, that is correct. Only versions including 9.5 Beta 2 and
later seem to crash on this very same xorg.conf . Opera 9.5 b2 and later
also crash with the default xorg.conf . I tried the settings in
pluginpath.ini, that you recommended. No luck.

I will try submitting the bug report.

Thanks.

Please, post the bug number (without the email address part) here once you have filed the bug report.

Originally posted by Tracio:

Please, post the bug number (without the email address part) here once you have filed the bug report.

Tracio, the bug number is 330999.

Hope, the devs can pin down the problem some time soon. Thanks for all your help.

I was reading this forum just a few hours ago because I was also experiencing the same problem. I was able to find a solution myself. It seems the crash, at least on my part, had something to do with the language settings. Here's what i did.

Initially, this environment variable was set to:

LANG=en_PH.UTF-8

With that setting, Opera 9.50b2 on Kubuntu 8.04 crashes. However, when I set it to this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It doesn't crash anymore with that setting.

Whatever en_PH represents, which may be the problem ... Opera may not know either.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Whatever en_PH represents, which may be the problem ... Opera may not know either.

Yeah. It's probably because Opera doesn't know how to handle unknown language settings that's why it crashes. BTW, en_PH is English on Philippines, where I live. I configured Kubuntu with Philippine locale settings, but English as primary language instead of Tagalog.

That was my guess ...

Originally posted by blackwing0013:

I was reading this forum just a few hours ago because I was also experiencing the same problem. I was able to find a solution myself. It seems the crash, at least on my part, had something to do with the language settings. Here's what i did.

Initially, this environment variable was set to:

LANG=en_PH.UTF-8

With that setting, Opera 9.50b2 on Kubuntu 8.04 crashes. However, when I set it to this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It doesn't crash anymore with that setting.

Wow! You pinned the problem! My locale settings were en_IN (English India). I changed it to en_US and now Opera flies! wuhoo! Thanks!

For users wanting to know how to change the locale settings graphically (Kubuntu 8.04, KDE 3.5.9):

1.Goto System Settings>Regional & Language>Country/Region & Language
2.Click on the 'Locale' tab
3.Click on 'Select System Language' and choose 'English US'
4.Click 'Apply'
5.Restart KDE (log out and then log in) for settings to take effect

Cheerio!

I also have a problem starting opera. I think it has something to do with offline mode and mail accounts. Somehow the offline mode was set to true when closing opera, now when I try to enable online mode, opera crashes.
When I edit the opera6.ini file and set offlinemode=0, opera won't start at all, I get a segmentation fault.
I deleted the profile folder, created a new mail account, imported mails from the old profile and it worked fine for some minutes. But after that opera was set to offline mode again and unable to start. I deleted the mail folder, suddenly opera started and I was able to turn off offline mode.
Is there any solution? I'm also using beta2. My LANG variable is set to en_US.utf8, so this solution didn't help me...

Originally posted by TheGrudge:

I also have a problem starting opera. I think it has something to do with offline mode and mail accounts. Somehow the offline mode was set to true when closing opera, now when I try to enable online mode, opera crashes.
When I edit the opera6.ini file and set offlinemode=0, opera won't start at all, I get a segmentation fault.
I deleted the profile folder, created a new mail account, imported mails from the old profile and it worked fine for some minutes. But after that opera was set to offline mode again and unable to start. I deleted the mail folder, suddenly opera started and I was able to turn off offline mode.
Is there any solution? I'm also using beta2. My LANG variable is set to en_US.utf8, so this solution didn't help me...

I'm not sure if this is going to make any difference, but you could try the latest snapshot release.