[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20201107.1

Tue Nov 10 14:35:00 UTC 2020

Hello,

I can confirm that I had a similar experience with Vivaldi.

Except in my case, the profile folder had been mutilated to such an 
extent by the new version that even the previous version of Vivaldi 
would just crash and burn when I tried to start it.

Starting over with a clean profile folder and hardware acceleration 
disabled was easy because I'm using the sync feature.

I've tried re-enabling hardware acceleration afterwards, which lead to 
the same result.

I've also been running the latest versions of Vivaldi on SBo with 
hardware acceleration disabled on Slackware 14.2 without any issues 
since then.

For what it's worth: I've seen the same thing happening on a system with 
NVIDIA Optimus disabled, and a system which only has an Intel embedded 
graphics card. So it seems to be some kind of Intel-related issue.

Given that this is a pretty common setup, it might be feasible to make a 
note of this in the README file, or even to take precautions in the 
slackbuild-script itself.

However, given that the general philosophy of Slackware is to assume 
that the user is smart and that other hardware configurations are not 
guaranteed to fail, such precautions should be optional.

Therefore I think that a note in the README and a variable that can 
optionally be set to apply your fix directly from the slackbuild with 
something like "DEFAULT_DISABLE_GPU_ACCELERATION=yes 
./vivaldi.Slackbuild", might be the most elegant solution here.

Kind regards,

Spycrowsoft

Op 10-11-2020 om 01:55 schreef Luiz Carlos Ramos via SlackBuilds-users:
> Hello,
>
> just posting about a thing that happened here with vivaldi (the
> browser).
>
> When it was first upgraded to version 3.4, it became broken due to some
> anoying problems with the GUI (windows seemed to be opened but didn't
> react to mouse clicks; minimizing the window seemed to work but the
> screen didn't change, etc.).
>
> At that time I went back to the version 2022.47 (from the end of
> Setember and the last one from 3.3 series) and it ran flawlessly again.
>
> This happened again for two or three times, for each slackbuild version
> posted so far in the 3.4 series.
>
> Last week (in another frustating upgrade) I tried to investigate a
> little bit more about this and ultimately found an answer in one post on
> this thread:
> https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/52242/vivaldi-3-4-freezes-constantly-debian-10-intel-gpu/9,
> which is to run vivaldi from the CLI this way:
>
>    $ vivaldi --disable-gpu-compositing
>
> another way to solve the problem is to disable GPU acceleration in the
> settings page (but to do this one must bring to the "settings" screen,
> which seems to be impossible when the problem happens).
>
> Here I managed to change /usr/bin/vivaldi inserting that option
> hardcoded in the shell script which starts the real vivaldi binary. This
> way I can run vivaldi from the GUI as well.
>
> The issue seems to be related to the specifics of the GPU used and I
> would not risk talking about it as it seems to require a deep knowledge of
> the inner bits.
>
> A curiosity of mine is if anybody else has experienced such problem.
>
> Anyway (and supposing this isn't a problem specific of myself), a
> suggestion would be writing some notes in the README file about it. I
> would volunteer doing so if there are no objections.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Luiz Carlos Ramos
> Sao Paulo - Brazil
> lramos dot prof at yahoo dot com dot br
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 02:22:06PM +0700, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> Sat Nov  7 07:03:35 UTC 2020
>> academic/ViennaRNA: Updated for version 2.4.16.
>> academic/cadabra2: Updated for version 2.3.2.
>> academic/colin: Updated for version 1.8.2.
>> accessibility/svkbd: Updated for version 0.2.1.
>> accessiblity/mag: Added (screen magnifier for X).
>> audio/drumkv1: Updated for version 0.9.18.
>> audio/guitarix: Add note to README.
>> audio/jack: Updated for version 1.9.16.
>> audio/jkmeter: Updated for version 0.8.0.
>> audio/mixxx: Fix build.
>> audio/padthv1: Updated for version 0.9.18.
>> audio/podget: Updated for version 0.8.7, various fixes.
>> audio/qm-vamp-plugins: Updated for version 1.8.0.
>> audio/rubberband: Updated for version 1.9.0.
>> audio/samplv1: Updated for version 0.9.18.
>> audio/sonic-visualiser: Updated for version 4.2.
>> audio/sooperlooper: Updated for version 1.7.6.
>> audio/synthv1: Updated for version 0.9.18.
>> audio/zita-ajbridge: Updated for version 0.8.4.
>> desktop/clipmenu: Updated for version 6.2.0.
>> desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop: Updated for version 2.18.
>> desktop/pinentry-dmenu: Added (pinentry program)
>> desktop/wmii: Fix man page. Add DOC make option.
>> desktop/xdgmenumaker: Updated for version 1.6.
>> development/adms: Fix script.
>> development/bmake: Updated for version 20201010.
>> development/gnulib: Find/chmod speedup.
>> development/hugo: Updated for version 0.78.0.
>> development/inform: Updated for version 6.34_6.12.4_1.
>> development/jdk15: Updated for version 15.0.1.
>> development/jupyter-notebook: Updated for version 6.1.4.
>> development/racer: Updated for version 2.1.40.
>> development/radare2: Updated for version 4.5.1.
>> development/reflex: Updated for version 2.5.4.20200715.
>> development/vstudio: Updated for version 10.
>> development/watchman: Nitpicks.
>> development/xtruss: Updated for version 20200918.a94a153.
>> games/aisleriot: Update doinst.sh.
>> games/fortune-noobfarm: Added (fortunes from noobfarm.org).
>> games/mininim: Minor script edit.
>> games/stella: Updated for version 6.4.
>> games/xcowsay: Updated for version 1.5.1.
>> games/zseal: Added (FICS Timeseal client).
>> gis/OTB: Updated for version 7.2.0.
>> gis/geopandas: Updated for version 0.8.0.
>> gis/pgsql-ogr-fdw: Updated for version 1.0.12.
>> gis/proj-data: Updated for version 1.3.
>> gis/proj: Updated for 7.2.0.
>> gis/pyproj: Updated for version 3.0.0.
>> graphics/Blender: Updated for version 2.83.8
>> graphics/SPIRV-Tools: Added (API+commands to process SPIR-V modules)
>> graphics/Vulkan-Tools: Added (Vulkan Utilities and Tools)
>> graphics/blender: Updated for version 2.90.1
>> graphics/flpsed: Fix URLs, include icons.
>> graphics/glslang: Updated for version 11.0.0.
>> graphics/libplacebo: Update patch.
>> graphics/qrencode: Updated for version 4.1.1.
>> graphics/shaderc: Update script.
>> graphics/vuescan: Updated for version 9.7.36.
>> graphics/vulkan-sdk: Update script.
>> libraries/SPIRV-Headers: Added (SPIRV Header files)
>> libraries/Vulkan-Headers: Added (Vulkan Headers and API registry)
>> libraries/gdl: Fix sandbox violation on current.
>> libraries/jbig2dec: Updated for version 0.19.
>> libraries/libbson: Updated for version 1.17.2.
>> libraries/libcdr: Fix build for current.
>> libraries/libdispatch: Added (Grand Central Dispatch)
>> libraries/libe-book: Fix build for current.
>> libraries/libpst: Fix VERSION in info file.
>> libraries/libxkbcommon: Updated for version 1.0.1.
>> libraries/mbedtls: Updated for version 2.16.8.
>> libraries/pytaglib: Added (Python audio tagging library).
>> multimedia/LBRY: Updated for version 0.48.2.
>> multimedia/plexmediaserver: Updated for v. 1.20.4.3517_ab5e1197c.
>> network/bozohttpd: Updated for version 20201014.
>> network/efax: Added (send/receive fax).
>> network/elinks: Fix SLKCFLAGS.
>> network/felinks: Updated for version 08da1d8.
>> network/nss-mdns: Updated for version 0.14.1.
>> network/opera-developer: Updated for version 73.0.3856.0.
>> network/opera: Updated for version 72.0.3815.186.
>> network/signal-desktop: Updated for version 1.37.3.
>> network/sslscan: Updated for version 2.0.6.
>> network/telegram: Updated for version 2.4.6.
>> network/telegram: Updated for version 2.4.7.
>> network/vivaldi: Updated for version 3.4.2066.94.
>> network/yadifa: Updated for version 2.4.0.
>> office/coolreader: Updated for version 3.2.50, keyboard shortcuts.
>> perl/perl-Coro: Compress manual pages.
>> python/argon2-cffi: Added (Python implementation of Argon2).
>> python/bleach: Updated for version 3.2.1.
>> python/esptool: Updated for version 3.0.
>> python/parso: Updated for version 0.8.0.
>> python/python-emoji: Updated for version 0.6.0.
>> python/python-importlib_metadata: Updated for version 2.0.0.
>> python/python-joblib: Updated for version 0.17.0.
>> python/python-prometheus_client: Updated for version 0.8.0.
>> python/python3-ipython: Updated for version 7.19.0.
>> python/python3-prompt_toolkit: Updated for version 3.0.8.
>> python/python3-tornado: Updated for version 6.1.0.
>> python/scikit-learn: Updated for version 0.23.2.
>> system/Iosevka-slab: Updated for version 3.7.1.
>> system/Iosevka: Updated for version 3.7.1.
>> system/alacritty: Updated for version 0.4.3.
>> system/bleachbit: Update script.
>> system/cpmtools: Updated for version 2.21.
>> system/esekeyd: Added (multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux).
>> system/fzf: Updated for version 0.24.2.
>> system/info2man: Updated for version 1.1_9.
>> system/kitchen-sync: Updated for version 2.10.
>> system/man-pages-ja: Updated for version 20201015.
>> system/man-pages-ru: Updated for version 5.03_20191017, new maint.
>> system/mmv: Added (multiple mv/rename).
>> system/oksh: Updated for version 6.8.1.
>> system/passwordsafe: Updated for version 1.12.0.
>> system/reptyr: Updated for version 0.8.0.
>> system/triggerhappy: Added (a lightweight global hotkey daemon).
>> +--------------------------+
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
>>
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