wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. On Thursday 02 April 2015 02:35:00 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Iceweasel commited suicide when I was asked by my bank to delete its > > history, so now all I get is a blank terminal screen that is using > > 100% of a cpu core until I kill it as root. A total purge and > > reinstall didn't fix it. > > > > Chromium seems incapable of performing an online credit card > > transaction. And crashes anytime I go to abcnews.go.com > > > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it > > into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be > > great as it probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such. > > > > So where is the std place it would normally live? If it can still > > find the old iceweasel password cache, that would be a huge plus. > > Just unpack it wherever you want it - /opt/firefox for example, and > put a symlink to the binary somewhere in your $PATH. It uses the > configuration and everything it can find in your home dir, so that > shouldn't be a problem. > > Petter
Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when I excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0 settings in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from me. All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored networking now. All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all the time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32 bit rtai kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the default number in /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64 vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered by firefox spitting out a tummy ache on start attempts. I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually running iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox. So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses to run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox -> /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But First try it like the renamed script does it: gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@" bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory Then try w/o the argument. gene@coyote:~$ firefox bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open simultaineously... The firefox binary itself gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Its there and executable. I can't even run it from there with sh ./firefox or sh ./firefox-bin either of which gets this error: gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sh ./firefox ./firefox: 2: ./firefox: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string I could use a clue, which will probably make me slap my forhead & yell Duh. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504020516.37247.ghesk...@wdtv.com