Opera 7.x won\'t start from Qtopia (works fine from konsole)

[raybert]

Hi,

I\'m having a great deal of difficulty getting Opera 7.3 to work correctly. Lots of folks seem to have gotten it to work so I\'m hoping someone might be able to see what I\'m doing wrong.

My environment: I\'m running tkcrom 2.5.1 on a c860. I *think* I\'m running the sash kernal.   Long story short: I d/l\'ed a file from ZUG called tkcrom_cxx0.zip which contains zImage.bin, 1074616 bytes, dated 2/8/04 11:22 am. I installed it when I flashed tkcrom 2.5.1 and everything seems fine with it. The version tab says \"compiled by sash@sash\" so, I\'m assuming that this is sash\'s kernal.

I d/l\'ed Opera 7.3 from the IBM site, extracted opera_arm.ipk and installed it. Before doing so, I uninstalled an older version and cleaned away all of the opera dirs by hand.

When I run it from Qtopia, it appears for about a second and then quits with no messages. When it appears, I can see that it is missing its toolbar icons.

If I run it from konsole, it runs fine!! (toolbar icons and all.)

I had previously installed version 6, right after flashing, but never ran it (networking not set up). When I got connected, the first thing I did was install stuff from proto\'s feed. Among them, Opera 7.11. This version would run from Qtopia but had no toolbar icons! It also ran fine from konsole. Later, I tried 7.3.

Wondering if the problem had something to do with which user it was being started as, I tried two things. I tried running it as root (had to modify the .desktop file to allow the checkbox to be visible). No dice. Next, I had noticed that there was a .opera dir in both /home/root and /home/zaurus and they were slightly different! So, I combined them both into /home/root/.opera, and replaced /home/zaurus/.opera with a symlink to the other. This made no difference at all.

Another strange thing that happened: when I first upgraded from 6 to 7.11 using proto\'s feed, it installed with a nice, new stylized Opera icon on the Network tab. Later, thinking that the upgrade from 6 was the problem, I had tried removing this version and installing fresh from the proto feed (same version, AFAIK). But this time it installed an icon (that looked more like the older version 6 icon) in the Applications tab! Did proto post a new version in between? I dunno, but strange.

Anyway, that\'s all of the details I can think of at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help,

~ray

[lardman]

When I run it from Qtopia, it appears for about a second and then quits with no messages. When it appears, I can see that it is missing its toolbar icons.

If I run it from konsole, it runs fine!! (toolbar icons and all.)

I assume it hasn\'t just disappeared into the background (and lost its taskbar icon)? What does \'ps -a\' tell you?

What does the .desktop file point at in terms of the binary?

FYI the lack of icons was probably the standard thing - you need to stick in a symlink.


Si

P.S. You\'ve posted in the wrong part of the forum - 5X00 section.

[raybert]

When I run it from Qtopia, it appears for about a second and then quits with no messages. When it appears, I can see that it is missing its toolbar icons.

If I run it from konsole, it runs fine!! (toolbar icons and all.)

I assume it hasn\'t just disappeared into the background (and lost its taskbar icon)? What does \'ps -a\' tell you?

I\'ll have to check that.  I just checked it now and it looks like there\'s two running.  I\'m using it right now though so I don\'t want to mess with it.

 

What does the .desktop file point at in terms of the binary?

Just \"opera\".  Same as I type in the shell.

 

FYI the lack of icons was probably the standard thing - you need to stick in a symlink.

Umm... what standard thing?  I don\'t recall seeing anything like that.

P.S. You\'ve posted in the wrong part of the forum - 5X00 section.

Oops, you\'re right.  I could\'ve sworn I clicked on \"Everything C7x00\"!!  :?

Oh well...

Thanks for the resonse...

~ray

[raybert]

a quick follow-up...

...opera completely dies and goes away after quitting prematurely, after being launched by Qtopia.

I thought I saw an extra one running earlier but it had to do with an apparently malfunctioning neuron in my brain: I typed \"ps -a|opera\" instead of \"ps -a|grep opera\"!  doh!  

~ray

[lardman]

The symlink is:

ln -s /opt/QtPalmtop/opera /usr/share/opera

Other than that I\'m stumped. I\'d try starting syslogd (I don\'t know how on your machine with your ROM, but it may be to do with editing /etc/init.d/qtopia or similar), then see what it says about opera not starting.


Si

[raybert]

Strange...  The link already existed.  But just for the heck of it, I deleted and re-created it.  Now it works!  Weird.

The only explanation I can think of is an ownership issue with the link.  But that should have been obviated when I ran Opera as root.  So, I dunno...

Thanks lardman!

~ray