On Thursday 02 April 2015 07:23:58 Christian Schmidt wrote: > On 02.04.2015 04:54, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > Did you remember to move your Iceweasel preferences out of the way? > Look at the "dotfolders" in your home directory and rename the > corresponding one (e.g. .mozilla) to something different and try > launching Iceweasel again. > > Regards, > Christian
No I didn't Christian. But when I was awakened by the phone at 3:55 am by some AH that left no trace on the phone system, just let it ring and hung up 50 milliseconds before the answering machine kicked in. I came in here, and iceweasel was on screen and had apparently recovered. With all my prefs and passwds intact. I didn't launch it & the only other person in this house wouldn't know how! Is this where we drag out that now ancient Sir Arther C. Clark quote about any sufficiently advanced technology is indestinguishable from magic? Call me puzzled. One other question, there is a command to make alsamixer save its current settings but I've not needed it in years, so I've forgotten it. I had to run the mixer and reenable master after I'd rebooted. I'll see what the man page has to say. Thanks Christian. 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/201504020916.16521.ghesk...@wdtv.com