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By csant. Friday, 6. April 2007, 11:30:03

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After updating to new X libs on some Linux distros, Opera stopped working. We are looking into the issue, and in the meantime we have a hotfix ready for you.

Happy Easter! :smile:

If you do not want to install a weekly release but continue running version 9.1, you can change the "DefaultDepth" option to 16 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as this will also work around the problem.

Download:

Easter egg!hotfix 2

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happy easter and happy sham-el-nessim and happy fix

By Khaled Khalil, # 6. April 2007, 11:40:12

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thanks, I will can use my favorite browser in feisty.

By mohegan, # 6. April 2007, 11:52:31

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Me too .

By xiaochugang, # 6. April 2007, 12:09:22

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Yay, now I can use it in Feisty again. *downloading*

By Aphenitry, # 6. April 2007, 12:16:51

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Flash still doesn't work correctly on
http://moosy.blogspot.com/
In Firefox and Konqueror it works.

By ra1000, # 6. April 2007, 12:21:04

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THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! i thought i'd go crazy as I realized after a complete system update (suse 10.2) that opera doesn't work anymore... I've been waiting for this for 1 1/2 loooong days without my favourite browser... konqueror and firefox are now alternatives... thank you again ^^

ps: keep up the good work

By LordBernhard, # 6. April 2007, 12:45:15

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This is so great! After an update of Ubuntu Feisty Opera stopped working today - until now. Thanks for this hotfix! Great work, well done!

By CLStefan, # 6. April 2007, 12:45:18

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Thanks. Everything works fine now on debian sid. One morning with Iceweasel sure reminds me how good opera is :D

By petteri, # 6. April 2007, 12:52:25

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Thanks! As I use source I thought that I screwed my system, since Opera segfaulted after I compiled X after the updates, so I reverted, aiming to fix it when I got more time. Now I can upgrade *and* use Opera.

By Mohjive, # 6. April 2007, 13:02:08

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Thank you so much!! No more downgrading libx and broken packets :wink:

By Wiorka, # 6. April 2007, 13:48:41

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Without OPERA_NUM_XSHM=0 Opera still segfaults on one Solaris 9 box, on another one it starts without problem but promts with this:

bur1:~$ opera
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "bur1:101.0".
opera: Shared memory extension not available

The Solaris 9 builds are identical on these two machines: so it seems that in first case Opera does not detect that Shared memory is not availble?

By Soleen, # 6. April 2007, 14:09:57

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Apparently this made Opera quite unstable. It keeps crashing when I close tabs.

Edit: downgrading made everything stable again.

By Aphenitry, # 6. April 2007, 14:11:10

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Soleen, do you run the second machine with remote X? It sounds more like shared memory is available on the first machine, but Opera cannot handle it.

By csant, # 6. April 2007, 14:30:18

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csant, Yes I ran it with remote X on second machine.
Just tried it locally and the same segfault repeated right during the start. Another thing: in both cases I am in VNC session but I do not think that this would cause anything.

By Soleen, # 6. April 2007, 14:47:44

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after opera 9.20.20070405 b633 crashed once, when i closed a tab,

now every time i type a 'w' (azerty keyboard) in the url bar opera crash !

can't type any url. that's the april fool with a week delay ? :-)

By zebul666, # 6. April 2007, 14:48:56

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy! My opera is back!

Thank you!!!

By mjjack, # 6. April 2007, 14:55:40

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This build crash when I click on "NICKELBACK VIDEOS ::." on http://www.nickelback.com/ . But "Paste and go" with link from "NICKELBACK VIDEOS ::." work corectly. My OS is Fedora. Anyone have the same problem?

Sorry for my english :smile:

By jarekstr, # 6. April 2007, 15:17:04

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Soleen, over remote X shared memory is not available. Can you run Opera directly from console on any of the Solaris boxes, without VNC?

By csant, # 6. April 2007, 15:24:29

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csant,
I have full access only to systems with Sol 10 and Sol 11, and on those Opera starts fine. However, I always run my desktop in VNC session on Solaris 9 machine. I just tried to connect to one of those Sol9 machines using SunRay: and after launching opera it again prints the message that shared memory is not availble and start fine after that.
So may be shared memory is actually not availble but because opera is in VNC session it can't figure this out? ( To be honest I have no knowldge in how X shared memory works)

update: after connected to a Sol 10 machine using SunRay and starting Opera: no messages is printed and opera starts fine.

By Soleen, # 6. April 2007, 15:49:40

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Why Opera doesn't pass Sarissa Unit Tests?
http://dev.abiss.gr/sarissa/test/testsarissa.html

By consalt, # 6. April 2007, 16:49:48

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I think that the version of the browser Opera has to be flexible an independent of the platform, be compatible at binary level with whatever Operating System based in IA32 (Ex. Windows, Linux, FreeBSD); and at source code level with anothers Operating Systems. That mean an avoid the compatibility problems, because is not necessary develop it by every Operating System, with this way the hours of work are smaller and the behavior and features of the most complete version can be improved for all user independently of their platform and last the error can be fixed better and more efficient and quickly and Opera will advance more faster than now for all.

By Salsero_Nash, # 6. April 2007, 17:35:39

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Originally posted by jarekstr:

This build crash when I click on "NICKELBACK VIDEOS ::." on http://www.nickelback.com/ . But "Paste and go" with link from "NICKELBACK VIDEOS ::." work corectly. My OS is Fedora. Anyone have the same problem?


Confirmed (using Xubuntu Dapper). I sent a bug report: bug-259502 [at] bugs.opera.com.

By Gort, # 6. April 2007, 17:38:48

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Salsero_Nash: I think you copied and pasted this comment, since I bet I read it before. What you have described is a well known practice in programming, and even though opera is closed source browser, believe me that it gets compiled from the same source trunk for all the platforms it support.
Of course I mean Opera Internet Suit: not Opera mini etc :smile:

By Soleen, # 6. April 2007, 17:40:18

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Salsero_Nash, that is (kind of) the way we work, at Opera :wink:

By csant, # 6. April 2007, 17:42:52

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This failed to install on my Fedora Core 3 system. The previous release had no such difficulty. (I use the 6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm release.) The error is a whole slew of lines of the form:

/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: invalid context system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t on line number xxx

(for various values of xxx).

As I said, I had no difficulty with the previous weekly on this box. I also had no difficulty installing either release on my Fedora Core 6 system.

By pgweiss, # 6. April 2007, 17:45:27

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great work, thanks for the fast turnaround. BTW, if you'd like to avoid getting all the duplicate bug reports with respect to the same problem affecting a lot of people, I suggest making the bug database available at least to some extent to the general public... so we can search for a bug before reporting, and determine the status ourselves of a reported one that matches the problem.

By alizard, # 6. April 2007, 18:28:13

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At the moment I only test this build on openSUSE 10.2!

"www.rr.com" is still not running well. Rendering Problems!



By Jada0007, # 6. April 2007, 19:13:00

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http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensormap/Default.aspx
map not loading

By mks523, # 6. April 2007, 19:47:19

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great fix! :-)

By suribe, # 6. April 2007, 20:26:44

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For the people that don't check for updates to the blogpost after they read it already:
If you do not want to install a weekly release but continue running version 9.1, you can change the "DefaultDepth" option to 16 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as this will also work around the problem.

By remcolanting, # 6. April 2007, 21:00:09

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http://www.ebayliveauctions.com/

pressing "viewlive" button get u stuck at "Startup status
Loading... "

By mks523, # 7. April 2007, 01:20:56

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Y'all have what appears to be a pretty serious memory leak in this version:

top - 19:17:04 up 37 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.76, 1.10, 0.82
Tasks:  87 total,   2 running,  85 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.0% us,  2.5% sy,  5.4% ni, 89.2% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2073444k total,  1730268k used,   343176k free,     3124k buffers
Swap:  1999992k total,   722232k used,  1277760k free,    59692k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S #C %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND                                                                                                               
 5078 kenny     34  19 2224m 1.5g  12m R  0  6.4 76.4   7:45 opera


I've never see it that huge before this build.

By kennycrudup, # 7. April 2007, 02:18:31

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when i open Gmail... :cry: same stop working.

some pages also same... is using memory problem?

By hansheng, # 7. April 2007, 02:33:59

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Opera-Linux report
Build 633, Opensuse 10.2, Thinkpad T43 2Ghz 1G RAM 1440x1050 display

With 26 tabs open and Opera running for 12 hours+ memory stats are:

Machine: Centrino 2Ghz, 1Gb RAM

PID   USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12288 seb       15   0  286m 171m  17m S  0.4 17.0  40:28.90 opera

Keystroke buffering problem: Holding down cursor-down or cursor-up in linux builds a buffer of keystrokes which continues after releasing the key. Very frustrating when scrolling.

Flash issues:

Still improving but still problematic...

Zoom is still not working on Flash sites, unlike Opera-Win. Also, I've had several situations with www.2advancedstudios.com where the site disappears and I just see a blank page with the 2advanced url at the top. I have to reload the site to fix. I'm guessing the "flash object" occupying the window space is crashing.

I've also had this happen while I'm focussed on another tab. Eg. Load youtube in a new tab while 2advanced was open in another (2A has music playing in the background). The moment I opened a youtube video the 2A flash object crashed (and the music stopped), giving me a blank page when I went back to the tab.

I've seen the flash object in Youtube die whilst viewing another tab, leaving a blank placeholder when I come back to the youtube page.

Scrolling up and down in the 2A homepage still causes it to crash and disappear too.

Fullscreen, I get a 1px white line at the top of the display. Zoom doesn't work fullscreen either.

Lastly, a recommendation: Opera's thumbnail previews that occur in Ctrl+Tab and also as tooltips for the tabs has a delay while rendering the thumbnail. It would be much nicer if these thumbnail previews were generated on an idlethread so that they are pre-cached when Ctrl+tab or tooltip previews are needed. The lag is annoying, particularly with Ctrl+tab.

Seb :smile:

By sebt, # 7. April 2007, 05:24:17

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when i go full screen with F11 while i load a big image like http://www.linux.com/blob.pl?id=7958dc150763fae38b6641c3734a8841
the image is not displayed entirely
but ends with some noise.

By zebul666, # 7. April 2007, 09:02:40

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David Storey's blog seems to be causing Opera to segfault on my computer.
http://my.opera.com/dstorey/

Can someone confirm?

By ColKilkenny, # 7. April 2007, 11:57:29

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ColKilkenny

yes, second fix doesnt help
and since i need new libX11-dev im sol :/

By rasz, # 8. April 2007, 04:22:04

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? @remcolanting, @csant,

"For the people that don't check for updates to the blogpost after they read it already:

'If you do not want to install a weekly release but continue running version 9.1, you can change the "DefaultDepth" option to 16 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as this will also work around the problem.'"


Is the above statement specific to Linux, or also applicable to Windows and other platforms?

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Happy Easter


By Staretz, # 8. April 2007, 16:02:23

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Hi,

when dragging a tab to the secondary monitor the window is opened on the primary monitor...should be obviously on the secondary. Also the mail panel is not available when just registered for RSS without valid mail account.

BTW I have a few whishes - are there any plans for:
* saving an using email templates
* editing HTML mails
* smart card support/digital signature
* full IMAP support

Happy Easter

By Chetto, # 9. April 2007, 22:11:33

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fix works. thx!

By flashgames, # 21. April 2007, 18:12:57

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