Re: Terminal Madness?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 04:00:30PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie: > > $ uname -a > Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian > 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux [...]

Re: Terminal Madness?

On 2015-09-28, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I am in an xterm window running in icewm, and its config looks > like this: > > xterm -fg white -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold' > -fs 24 > > (I've since changed to Luxi Mono just as a test of sorts.) I would have tried

Re: Terminal Madness?

On 2015-09-29, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> ===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just change > before their eyes without any intervention from the operator? >> > Interesting what you find when you search the web for "EVA". (Extra > Vehicular Activity?) > I

Re: Terminal Madness?

Hi, Curt wrote: > I've seen things I thought were there that weren't, due to the internal > state of my machine. And then there is mad hardware ... I understand from the initial mail of this thread that alpine is more victim than offender. Being one of its users myself i can say that jed is

Re: Terminal Madness?

I wish I could post a [SOLVED] message for this thread, but due to being a tad under the weather I cannot. Thanks to all who chimed in. I have convinced myself that no other instances of alpine have been running, and the .pinerc file was not being opened by any other process. I know this is

Terminal Madness?

I run alpine, built from source, on my Jessie: $ uname -a Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux Alpine lately seems to have trouble "remembering" changes made by me to its config, e.g. adding new folders for additional

Re: Terminal Madness?

I am not an alpine user, but I would make sure that there are no instances of alpine running. ps -ef | grep alpine Sometimes the bear wins. Mike On 09/28/2015 04:26 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > 1. Do you see any of what you describe with Debian's stock Alpine? > 2. What version of Alpine are

Re: Terminal Madness?

1. Do you see any of what you describe with Debian's stock Alpine? 2. What version of Alpine are you compiling? I've been a regular Alpine user on all platforms (to include several Linux distros) since before the 1.0 release and have never seen what you describe. I'm now typing this message

Re: Terminal Madness?

On 29/09/15 06:44, Mike McGinn wrote: > I am not an alpine user, but I would make sure that there are no > instances of alpine running. > > ps -ef | grep alpine Or alternatively, see what users/processes have the file open: $ fuser -u .pinerc -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015/09/29 5:18 "Bob Bernstein" : > [...] > > ===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just change before their eyes without any intervention from the operator? > I have seen that, on failing hardware (Dying RAM and/or buffers). But I assume your terminal is