On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:22:13PM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I (at last, but never mind that) updated my OpenSuse 15.0 to 15.1. The > update looked > clean. The only problem I have run into is that gnu-bg does not produce any > output. > (It worked properly when I was running 15.0) I'm running under KDE and using > the > latest video drivers from nvidia for my graphics card. My package manager > shows that > the version of gnubg (and related packages) is: 1.04.001-lp151.2.24 > > Has this been seen before? Any suggestions on how to debug the problem? Any > help > would be appreciated.
Do you start gnubg from some kind of menu or desktop icon ? If this is the case, could you try to start it from a terminal to see if there are some useful error messages, and if it ends immediately or runs but stays stuck early, before showing the GUI. In the latter case, could you run top or "ps ux" in another terminal to see if it really does nothing or if it is using 100% of a CPU. Could you try using "gnubg -t" as well to see if running without GUI makes a difference OpenSuse 15.1 release information claims that it provides a more recent gcc compiler. It is not clear how much change from 15.0 that means and how its packages were built, but your problem may be due to the following issue (gnubg 1.04 is older than that): 2015-10-07 Michael Petch <[email protected]> Fix problem identified by Mike Frysinger where __attribute__ and _GNU_SOURCE may not be properly defined in some situations. This may result in an infinite loop on newer compilers. There were some discussions about this in this mailing list in 2015 when other distributions started to use the hardening features of gcc by default.
