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 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 in Alpine 2.11 under Debian/Jessie. > > --------------------------| > John L. Ries | > Salford Systems | > Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | > or (435)867-8885 | > --------------------------| > > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, 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 >> >> Alpine lately seems to have trouble "remembering" changes made >> by me to its config, e.g. adding new folders for additional >> remote imap hosts. That is, I make a change, such as adding a >> new folder, but if for some reason I have to exit alpine, when I >> re-launch it the changes are not there. >> >> My fix was to delete .pinerc and launch alpine from "scratch," >> rebuilding the config I need "by hand." NOW, here you may well >> ask, >> >> "But Bob! Surely this is a question for the alpine list, not a >> debian list, n'est-ce pas?" >> >> But wait! Now I see my new hand-cranked config is not behaving; >> changes made are not working. I close alpine, and as I edit in >> jed the .pinerc lines that are misbehaving I notice they have >> been altered ("corrupted"). Then (my hand to God I) AS I STARE >> AT THE LINES IN JED CHARACTERS ARE CHANGING "ON THEIR OWN" >> WITHOUT ME TOUCHING A KEY. >> >> 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.) >> >> ===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just >> change before their eyes without any intervention from the >> operator? >> >> >> >> -- >> Bob Bernstein >> >> > > -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU President, UU Congregation at Rock Tavern More kidneys than eyes ** Registered Linux User 377849