Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
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 t

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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 not

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-29 Thread Curt
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 another text editor.

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-29 Thread Curt
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 thought Bob was pronounc

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread tomas
-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 [...] Indepe

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Joel Rees
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 software on the machi

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Longland
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 haven

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Mike McGinn
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

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread John L. Ries
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

Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
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 remot