> > This is almost certainly an Opera issue, not an OS one, but I'm > really > scratching my head over it, so I'll broaden the scope of the > investigation a bit. > > Here are the facts: > > - - opera 6.0beta, running fine for weeks on Hobson, a Red Hat 7.2 > workstation, suddenly -- mid-session -- became unable to load any > site. > Just hung while searching for the address, even if I give it the > IP > address instead of the fqdn. > > - - Confirmed that the following work correctly at this time: > - basic IP connectivity > - DNS resolution > - all functions in Mozilla, using the same addresses. > > That would seem to rule out an OS or networking problem, so ... > > - - Created and tried a new user on Hobson, tried Opera again - > still > fails. Now we've ruled out a user-specific config problem. > > - - Copied the directory containing Opera binaries to Caspar, Red > Hat 7.2. > Runs fine using these same binaries. Now we've determined that > there's > something specific to Hobson that's causing a problem. > > - - Download new copy of Opera, same version, remove the old copy and > unpack the new one on Hobson. Still fails to load sites with > these > fresh binaries. > > - - Fire up tcpdump on Hobson. Traffic seen only between DNS > server and > me. No contact with target site. Turn off firewall and repeat; > no > change. > > - - Last resort: run Opera as root. Still fails. Now we've ruled > out any > kind of permissions problem. > > All copies of this formerly working browser, including fresh ones, > suddenly stopped working on only _one_ workstation for all users, > whileidentical copies of these same binaries continue to work fine > on another > workstation, and other browsers continue to work fine on both > workstations. In all cases, binaries are owned by root and run by a > normal user with default configurations. > > What have I failed to rule out? > > - -d
Given your level of expertise, David, I tend to think that a solution will go begging. Only thing I can think of trying is to chown the binary to a user and see if that works. jb _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
