Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[wes]

Also, if you could possibly copy/paste the full command and output, or post
a screenshot somewhere, that would be most helpful.

-wes

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Tom  wrote:

> I still do not think that what you see is Firefox related.
> Are you trying to use Yast2 remotely from another machine? If so, how
> do you log in? Ssh/VNC/.?
> To give you head start for further follow up, here is little Yast2
> trivia if you run on local machine:
>   * Yast2 needs to be started as root
>   * on SuSE, sudo does not forward X traffic, so running: sudo yast2
> will start Yast2 in text (ncurses) mode. You might not like that.
>   * To get Yast2 to come in X GUI, use following commands:
> - become root: su
>- start Yast2: yast2
> If you need to run yast on remote machine and want X GUI, The best way
> is to use VNC.
> Hope it helps, Tomas
> On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 12:36 -0800, logical american wrote:
> > On 2/23/2017 10:10 AM, wes wrote:
> > > I think you're still in "too terse" territory. We are not familiar
> > > with any
> > > way for Firefox to "block" any other application from opening. What
> > > do you
> > > actually see when you try to open Yast2 while Firefox is already
> > > running?
> > Wes:
> >
> > I went back and checked again.  It was the yast2 command which
> > failed,
> > but because it could NOT open an X-window. Unfortunately the message
> > which popped up on my screen indicated that Firefox had blocked the
> > command from executing from the CLI terminal window.
> >
> > This most likely was caused by some gnome interception of the error
> > code
> > and an attempt to identify the cause.
> >
> > I understand that the true cause was the inability of yast2 to
> > properly
> > open up a new popup window.
> >
> > Thanks for your questions and telling me to be more specific and less
> > terse.
> >
> > - Randall
> >
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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[Tom]

I still do not think that what you see is Firefox related.
Are you trying to use Yast2 remotely from another machine? If so, how
do you log in? Ssh/VNC/.?
To give you head start for further follow up, here is little Yast2
trivia if you run on local machine:
  * Yast2 needs to be started as root
  * on SuSE, sudo does not forward X traffic, so running: sudo yast2
will start Yast2 in text (ncurses) mode. You might not like that.
  * To get Yast2 to come in X GUI, use following commands:
- become root: su
   - start Yast2: yast2
If you need to run yast on remote machine and want X GUI, The best way
is to use VNC.
Hope it helps, Tomas
On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 12:36 -0800, logical american wrote:
> On 2/23/2017 10:10 AM, wes wrote:
> > I think you're still in "too terse" territory. We are not familiar
> > with any
> > way for Firefox to "block" any other application from opening. What
> > do you
> > actually see when you try to open Yast2 while Firefox is already
> > running?
> Wes:
> 
> I went back and checked again.  It was the yast2 command which
> failed, 
> but because it could NOT open an X-window. Unfortunately the message 
> which popped up on my screen indicated that Firefox had blocked the 
> command from executing from the CLI terminal window.
> 
> This most likely was caused by some gnome interception of the error
> code 
> and an attempt to identify the cause.
> 
> I understand that the true cause was the inability of yast2 to
> properly 
> open up a new popup window.
> 
> Thanks for your questions and telling me to be more specific and less
> terse.
> 
> - Randall
> 
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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[logical american]

On 2/23/2017 10:10 AM, wes wrote:
> I think you're still in "too terse" territory. We are not familiar with any
> way for Firefox to "block" any other application from opening. What do you
> actually see when you try to open Yast2 while Firefox is already running?
Wes:

I went back and checked again.  It was the yast2 command which failed, 
but because it could NOT open an X-window. Unfortunately the message 
which popped up on my screen indicated that Firefox had blocked the 
command from executing from the CLI terminal window.

This most likely was caused by some gnome interception of the error code 
and an attempt to identify the cause.

I understand that the true cause was the inability of yast2 to properly 
open up a new popup window.

Thanks for your questions and telling me to be more specific and less terse.

- Randall

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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[Tom]

If I understand you correctly, you have done following:
1. Opened gnome terminal
2. Started Firefox by typing: firefox
3. You tried to start yast2 from the same terminal by typing: yast2
And nothing happened - Am I right?
If yes, then try to start firefox and yast2 as background processes by
adding & to the end of your command lines - like this:
firefox &
yast2 &
That way the commands will not block your terminal from executing
further commands.
Does that help?
Tomas
On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 09:57 -0800, logical american wrote:
> On 2/22/2017 10:38 PM, Tom wrote:
> > Can you describe what do you mean? How is Firefox  blocking Yast2?
> > Are you:
> > a) Downloading some one-click package from OBS expecting Firefox to
> > start Yast2?
> > b) Starting Yast2 from command line and something tells you that
> > Firefox prevents it from running?
> sorry about being too terse.
> 
> I was starting Yast2 from the command line, in one gnome terminal 
> window, but I had another firefox window open already.
> 
> I was totally surprised, when firefox blocked the CLI command from 
> executing.
> 
> - Randall
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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[wes]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:57 AM, logical american  wrote:

> On 2/22/2017 10:38 PM, Tom wrote:
> > Can you describe what do you mean? How is Firefox  blocking Yast2?
> > Are you:
> > a) Downloading some one-click package from OBS expecting Firefox to
> > start Yast2?
> > b) Starting Yast2 from command line and something tells you that
> > Firefox prevents it from running?
> sorry about being too terse.
>
> I was starting Yast2 from the command line, in one gnome terminal
> window, but I had another firefox window open already.
>
> I was totally surprised, when firefox blocked the CLI command from
> executing.
>
> - Randall
>

I think you're still in "too terse" territory. We are not familiar with any
way for Firefox to "block" any other application from opening. What do you
actually see when you try to open Yast2 while Firefox is already running?

And also, please confirm that opening Yast2 in this way does work when
Firefox is not running.

-wes
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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[logical american]

On 2/22/2017 10:38 PM, Tom wrote:
> Can you describe what do you mean? How is Firefox  blocking Yast2?
> Are you:
> a) Downloading some one-click package from OBS expecting Firefox to
> start Yast2?
> b) Starting Yast2 from command line and something tells you that
> Firefox prevents it from running?
sorry about being too terse.

I was starting Yast2 from the command line, in one gnome terminal 
window, but I had another firefox window open already.

I was totally surprised, when firefox blocked the CLI command from 
executing.

- Randall
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Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[Tom]

Can you describe what do you mean? How is Firefox  blocking Yast2?
Are you:
a) Downloading some one-click package from OBS expecting Firefox to
start Yast2?
b) Starting Yast2 from command line and something tells you that
Firefox prevents it from running?
If a) is you problem:
* Check your MIME type settings in Preferences --> Applications -->
YaST Meta Package - should be set to: Always ask
  See more at: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Manage-preferences-and-ad
d-ons/Applications-panel-Set-how-Firefox-handles-different-types-of/ta
-p/1900
  Alternatively you can always start Yast2 from the command line as
root by typing: yast2 
-Tomas
On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 20:43 -0800, logical american wrote:
> To all:
> 
> For some strange reason, recently while running Mozilla Firefox
> v50.1.0 
> on the openSuse 13.2 linux system, it blocked Yast2, which is a
> system 
> administration program, which I was going to use for software
> management.
> 
> Why would Firefox be blocking Yast2?  This doesn't make sense to me?
> 
> - Randall
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[PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

[logical american]

To all:

For some strange reason, recently while running Mozilla Firefox v50.1.0 
on the openSuse 13.2 linux system, it blocked Yast2, which is a system 
administration program, which I was going to use for software management.

Why would Firefox be blocking Yast2?  This doesn't make sense to me?

- Randall

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