On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:46:22 -0700
Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi Ed, thanks for testing for the problem.
>
> It may help for me to be more specific.
>
> I am experiencing this problem on Slackware Linux 12.0, on two
> different machines. I see it both on the distribution binary and when
> I build it from source. I have seen it on every version of fldigi
> going back a year or more. It seems especially curious that while
> most don't see the problem, the original poster saw what seems to me
> to be the same problem on Windows.
>
> It doesn't matter whether I configure it for "QRZ online via default
> Internet Browser" or "Paid online subscription". It also doesn't
> matter which method I use to invoke the lookup: "right click
> menu->Look up call" or enter the call manually and press the QRZ
> button. It doesn't matter which order I use those methods. The very
> first time I do this, nothing happens. If I'm configured for the
> subscription, I see "Request sent to qrz.com..." With it set for web
> lookup nothing happens on my browser. If the browser is not running
> it won't be started. In any case it will stay in that state forever
> although fldigi continues to operate normally. On all subsequent
> lookup attempts, whichever method I use, it works fine.
>
> Using Wireshark I have verified that on the first attempt nothing is
> sent out to QRZ.com. If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it may be
> related to some library version, or possibly the kernel version
> (2.6.21.5-smp) since that is something that could be different on my
> setup. This isn't a major issue, but it bugs me every time :-)
>
> Fwiw, I've included the output from ldd on fldigi Ver 3.13AD below.
>
> Bob W6CP
I've tested this on Ubuntu at least as far back a 8.04 and maybe even
further. So that is at least 18 months ago.
It just works, period, end of subject.
I can verify that there is a problem in M$, it takes 2 tries to work.
I would suggest to look at what the default browser is set to.
x-www-browser '%s' I think is the correct syntax.
Do this, download and burn the Ubuntu livecd, and test it from there.
I know Slackware is not for the faint of heart, but is it truly a
mainstream distro anymore ?
I've been alpha testing fldigi for over 3 years now, and except for
early on problems I rarely see any bugs/gotchas. I use Ubuntu and early
on I used Debian.
fldigi running under Linux is rock solid and stable.
Here is my ldd output ::
ed at w3nr:~$ cd bin
ed at w3nr:~/bin$ ldd fldigi
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb80a1000)
libportaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libportaudio.so.2 (0xb806b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb8052000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb802c000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb8016000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7ff6000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7fe2000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7fdd000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7fb7000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7fa7000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7eb8000)
libsndfile.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1 (0xb7e5b000)
libsamplerate.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsamplerate.so.0 (0xb7cf1000)
libpulse-simple.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0 (0xb7cdf000)
libpulse.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0 (0xb7c80000)
libhamlib.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libhamlib.so.2 (0xb7c64000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7c5b000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7b6c000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7b5c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb79f9000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb79cc000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7904000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80a2000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb788d000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7882000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb787e000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7864000)
libFLAC.so.8 => /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8 (0xb7811000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7808000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb77ef000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib/libcap.so.2 (0xb77ea000)
libgdbm.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 (0xb77e3000)
libusb-0.1.so.4 => /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 (0xb77da000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb77b3000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb77ad000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb77a7000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb77a2000)
libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0xb779c000)
Ed W3NR
