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    • atomicorbital
      atomicorbital last edited by

      I am on ubuntu 16.04 using Opera Developer 43
      it crashes every 10 seconds ...
      Where is directory storing current profile ? I need to delete it.
      I have already removed/purged the ubuntu package and re-installed - no help
      I have also deleted cache ... No help
      rm -rf ./.cache/opera*

      Since Opera crashes so quickly I am NOT looking for an Opera UI to do this since it will crash before I will be able to interact with a running Opera browser

      Version: 43.0.2412.0 - Opera is up to date
      Update stream: developer
      System: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (x86_64; Unity)

      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2896.3 Safari/537.36 OPR/43.0.2412.0 (Edition developer)

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      • atomicorbital
        atomicorbital last edited by

        In attempt to discover a command line parameter to delete profile I was hoping this would list such

        opera-developer --help

        No help on that monster list

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        • greenriverrus
          greenriverrus last edited by

          Are you looking in ~/.config/opera ?

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          • atomicorbital
            atomicorbital last edited by

            Thanks - I have deleted that now ... No help still crashes every 10 seconds or so

            rm -rf ~/.config/opera*

            rm -rf ~/.cache/opera*

            I want to use Opera yet cannot ... Suggestions ?

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            • atomicorbital
              atomicorbital last edited by

              Here is what dmesg shows once I launch opera

              [ 1253.811179] BrowserBlocking[9157]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f145f133660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1309.589974] BrowserBlocking[9492]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f45c5933660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1360.606086] BrowserBlocking[9682]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f8a97393660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1434.202293] BrowserBlocking[9899]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007fa9b0239660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1466.200604] BrowserBlocking[10181]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007fdd12a16660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1498.305586] BrowserBlocking[10377]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f13a9b93660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1530.061586] BrowserBlocking[11113]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f81c6fdb660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1565.252687] BrowserBlocking[11336]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007ff0f3931660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 1574.183333] opera-developer[11518]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007ffc538104d0 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 2184.522654] BrowserBlocking[12502]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f38588b4660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 2199.254622] opera-developer[12659]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007fff26da5640 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 2773.632609] BrowserBlocking[13151]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f5590ebb660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [ 2794.679471] opera-developer[13314]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007ffd83af1db0 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14132.041847] BrowserBlocking[17065]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f886f777660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14143.138145] opera-developer[17223]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007fff7709b270 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14300.026436] BrowserBlocking[17541]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f6b0e504660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14331.836508] BrowserBlocking[17786]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f4fdfd46660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14363.737114] BrowserBlocking[17990]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f9225244660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14395.721123] BrowserBlocking[18192]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007fa66f020660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14431.910932] BrowserBlocking[18396]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007f6305313660 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]
              [14455.268804] opera-developer[18574]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000002cf1c16 sp 00007ffecd6be1d0 error 4 in opera-developer[400000+5c48000]

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              • atomicorbital
                atomicorbital last edited by

                Here is current output when I launch from terminal

                opera-developer
                Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                Segmentation fault (core dumped)

                Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                CrashID=8b4f1d21-9659-4fb4-913c-107162161115
                Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                CrashID=0692f144-394b-4506-a7ab-66a052161115
                nsGkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                CrashID=31e4aa16-6dfb-4dad-8a4b-47ff92161115
                Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                CrashID=0845770b-9746-45fe-bc1b-b47462161115
                Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.secrets: No such file or directory
                CrashID=ed87a0b3-b867-4801-81f7-b74782161115
                CrashID=aa6e1408-e3a3-473e-adf6-b284a2161115

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                • atomicorbital
                  atomicorbital last edited by

                  I installed opera-stable which runs just fine

                     opera-stable_41.0.2353.56_amd64.deb
                  

                  I also totally removed opera-developer and reinstalled then when I launched it
                  confirmed the Ad Block preference is OFF ... still crashes

                     opera-developer_43.0.2412.0_amd64.deb
                  

                  Also I just installed opera-beta which also crashes same as opera-developer crashes

                     opera-beta_42.0.2393.38_amd64.deb
                  

                  [52047.182549] BrowserBlocking[5601]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000003b3e5c6 sp 00007f7ac2599660 error 4 in opera-beta[400000+5aca000]
                  [52091.614312] BrowserBlocking[6112]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000003b3e5c6 sp 00007f51bd450660 error 4 in opera-beta[400000+5aca000]
                  [52123.453484] BrowserBlocking[6193]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000003b3e5c6 sp 00007f8a2a3ac660 error 4 in opera-beta[400000+5aca000]
                  [52128.895953] opera-beta[6392]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000003b3e5c6 sp 00007fff8107cfc0 error 4 in opera-beta[400000+5aca000]

                  Looks like I will just lay low and stay away from beta and developer releases for now

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