On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:06 PM Alan McConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > The first and most important problem is: my iceweasel crashes > instantaneously upon > being invoked, whether from the Activities list on the LH side or from the > command > line. It was totally reliable under wheezy. > > Second: my mutt, invoked from the terminal/command line. crashes > instantaneously > also. Before I resigned myself to the gnome environment, it ran fine. > > I suspect the cause of these 2 issues is the same. We'd need to see log files eg /var/log/messages or something, or maybe the xsession-errors file, to make any progress on what might be the problem. Are you running Jessie now? I'm running Iceweasel on Jessie on amd64 architecture with no stability problems.
> Three: where is the utility file ? I used this all the time in previous > Debian installations. > > if you mean the file command, that can tell you the type of a file, it's still there, it's in a package called, imaginatively, file. "apt-get install file" as root should restore it if it is missing from your system. It was just there on mine. Mark
