On Sunday 10 January 2016 02:42:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 January 2016 19:39:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 10 January 2016 00:24:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I can see all that in synaptic to prove its there, and mc agree's, > > > but its in html and iceweasel has lost the ability to open a file on > > > a local filesystem. No clue why as there sure should not be an ssl > > > problem on a local direct access disk. > > > > > > So unless I see an iceweasel update in the next day or 2, I will be > > > actively searching for a browser that Just Works(TM). > > > > You are using TDE. Why on earth aren't you using Konqueror for this > > sort of thing?? Easiest route: > > > > Do: > > alt-F2 > > > > type in resultant window: > > /home/gene > > or whatever you call your home directory, or route to wherever the > > file you want is > > > > navigate to file you want and open it. > > > > Lisi > > Konquerer and I have never made friends, Lisi, but if it works, I'll try > to apologize to it. But I don't have to, it just refused to open > gedadocs.html in the /usr/share/doc/geda/ directory. Despite being set > as the default browser, it handed it over to iceweasel, and iceweasel of > course claimed the file did not exist. > > Does it open that file on your system?
No, because I haven't got it, and no browser or file manager would be able to open a file on my computer that isn't there. > > Actually I did get it to open that file when used as an argument from a > console window, in the local wiki, but its a one page file that points > at www.gpleda.org, a site that apparently does not exist or the > iceweasel cannot find. But the site CAN be pinged. A new ssl problem? I had no difficulty at all in opening the site www.gpleda.org in all three of the browsers I currently have installed: Google Chrome, Iceweasel and Konqueror. In all three I could then click through to the wiki which seemed to be full of documentation and information. Konqueror gave the best diagrams: it just had spaces which said click to enlarge, and the resulting wiring diagram was beautifully clear and definitely usable. So no, it is not a new ssl prioblem, it is a new Gene problem. ;-) Lisi P.S. You had tried just opening the site in a browser, right?? > > The lack of being able to access the docs for all these tools is, to put > it bluntly, damned frustrating. So to hell with it, I'll make the 60 > mile round trip to my nearest radio shack tomorrow and get some of their > project boards as I can build 2 each of these circuits on a 2x2" project > board. > > In the meantime, somewhere in this daily updating of libssl and friends, > maybe, if they switch chews and hold their mouth just right, a browser, > any browser, might actually work again. But I don't recommend either of > us hold our breath until that happens. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
