Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 07:25:37PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:02:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 > > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. > > > > > > Every time I start the c

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:02:36PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. > > > > Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from > > hibernation Iceweasel opens and

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. > > Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from > hibernation Iceweasel opens and I close it 6 consecutive times in > rapid succession. After the 6th time i

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:07:43 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > Aren't you confounding sept and neuf (cats have nine lives, même à > Paris)? Naaa, this is world crisis: even cats had to reduce their way of death ;-p) -- Joy: Lets fork cat! :) Joy: imagine a big pitchfork and a dead kitten on top of

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-12, B wrote: > > If it had been 7 times, we could have call it catweasel :) Aren't you confounding sept and neuf (cats have nine lives, même à Paris)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:55 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from > hibernation Iceweasel opens and I close it 6 consecutive times in > rapid succession. After the 6th time it stays closed unless I > deliberately open it. If it had been 7 ti

Iceweasel problem

2014-06-12 Thread Bob Holtzman
Running updated Wheezy w/ Iceweasel 24.5.0 on a Thinkpad 420i. Every time I start the computer from a shutdown or wake it from hibernation Iceweasel opens and I close it 6 consecutive times in rapid succession. After the 6th time it stays closed unless I deliberately open it. Online searches have

Re: Iceweasel problem

2010-01-20 Thread Svante R Signell
Hi, Sorry to chime in here a year later but I had the same problem. After killing all processes and removing lock files the problem persisted. Using the strace method given show below I found the problem. The problematic file found was: .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini In my case the .mozilla dire

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:24 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > then move your ~/.mozilla somewhere else, and reboot? > > Mitch, > > I'm not sure if you were catching this as humor or not, but just to be > on the safe side... you're saying that you've moved ~/.mozilla (to

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Ken Teague
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > then move your ~/.mozilla somewhere else, and reboot? Mitch, I'm not sure if you were catching this as humor or not, but just to be on the safe side... you're saying that you've moved ~/.mozilla (to another name) *and* you've rebooted and this problem persists? -

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:55 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 05 14:07:19 you wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:58 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > If so, send me *via private > > > mail* the file created by: > > > strace -f -t $(which iceweasel) 2>&1 | bzip2

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 14:07:19 you wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:58 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > If so, send me *via private > > mail* the file created by: > > strace -f -t $(which iceweasel) 2>&1 | bzip2 -c > $(mktemp > > XX.strace.bz2) > > Thanks for the help. I've looked

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 14:12:38 André Neves wrote: > > Thanks for the info. It seems odd that iceweasel would write to the > > adblockplus file but refuse to start. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, Boyd, but it doesn't seem to me that > adblockplusfile has been modified. Yes, you are correct. I m

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread André Neves
> Thanks for the info. It seems odd that iceweasel would write to the > adblockplus file but refuse to start. Correct me if I'm wrong, Boyd, but it doesn't seem to me that adblockplusfile has been modified. André

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 12:47:08 mitch wrote: (but double-quoted text is mine) > "I think maybe stracing that process might be our next step. Please > install > the strace package. I think the command we want for the first trace is: > strace -f -e trace=open $(which iceweasel) 2>&1 | tail -n 2

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
"Thanks for the info. It seems odd that iceweasel would write to the adblockplus file but refuse to start. I think maybe stracing that process might be our next step. Please install the strace package. I think the command we want for the first trace is: strace -f -e trace=open $(which iceweas

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 12:14:26 mitch wrote: > Okay, so, here is the out put. > > > mi...@debian:~$ ps auwx | grep -E 'ice|fire|xul' > > mitch15545 0.0 0.0 3592 688 pts/12 R+ 13:06 0:00 grep -E > > ice|fire|xul mi...@debian:~$ find ~/.mozilla -iname '*lock*' -ls > > 5514430 -

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread S Scharf
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch > wrote: > > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > > > started. > > > > > > "Iceweasel is already running, but i

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:57 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 05 11:29:48 André Neves wrote: > > Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox > > processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). > > Wow! How many times are you guys going to

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 11:29:48 André Neves wrote: > Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox > processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). Wow! How many times are you guys going to tell the guy the same thing? Mitch, could you please post the output of: p

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:29 -0200, André Neves wrote: > Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox > processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). > > André There are none running. Use Gnome as desk top and looked in System Monitor and it shows no iceweasel or f

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread André Neves
Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). André On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 15:24, mitch wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:16:41 -0500, mitch wrote: >> > On Mo

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:16:41 -0500, mitch wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > > > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message be

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:16:41 -0500, mitch wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > > > started. > > > > > > "Iceweasel is already running, but

Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below started. "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system." Googled for reasons and possible fixes. Killed iceweasel proces

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch wrote: > > Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. > > > > Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. > > What about after killing? Did iceweasel re-create

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch wrote: > Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. > > Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. What about after killing? Did iceweasel re-create the lock files? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mm

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > > started. > > > > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new > > window, you must first clo

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > started. > > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new > window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart > your system." > > Go

Installing additional truetype fonts in Lenny fails partially (Iceweasel problem)

2008-06-14 Thread Sladi
Hi, I try to install some additional truetype fonts in Lenny AMD64. Everything seems fine but specifying antialiasing rules in /etc/fonts/local.conf for those fonts won't work. I copied some Windows fonts to a newly created folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows/ (Tahoma and Lucida Console).

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:44 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks > >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > >

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:25:20PM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I can bet. I suppose it makes a difference how many users are on the > machine. For me it's just me, so if I screw something else I get to > yell at myself, but if I had 200 users yelling at me for doing s

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 16:04, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > > I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That i

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > > I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That is because they are

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks > and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That is because they are not available if I shift to another browser, another machine or another os. These d

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/13/07 11:02, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> See, I learn something new from this list every day. At least now the >> OP should know what to do. > > Imagine the howls of outrage if apt-get decided to scan thru > /etc/passwd del

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 11:02, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > See, I learn something new from this list every day. At least now the > OP should know what to do. Imagine the howls of outrage if apt-get decided to scan thru /etc/passwd deleting each account's $HOME/.ice

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: > Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 >> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> KS wrote: Joe Hart wrote: >

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > KS wrote: > > > Joe Hart wrote: > > >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> KS wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Any suggestions on how to stop this?

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > KS wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this? > >>> Many TIA! > >>> Dennis > >>> * > >> Perhaps uninstalling (purging

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this? >>> Many TIA! >>> Dennis >>> * >> Perhaps uninstalling (purging) the one you have and installing it again >> will solve your problem. >> >> Joe >> > > Not i

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-12 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Any suggestions on how to stop this? > >> Many TIA! >> Dennis >> * > > Perhaps uninstalling (purging) the one you have and installing it again > will solve your problem. > > Joe > Not if the problems exists in his Iceweasel profile. /KS -- To UNSU

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the > supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." > and an ad for making w

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Dennis G. Wicks dies 05/04/2007 hora 08:28: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > [...] > > Any suggestions on how to stop this? Backup your FF private dir to be able to inspect it later and see what happened, but get it out of the way, so that you start a clean bro

Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." and an ad for making web sites for funeral homes! If I use Galeon or lynx I get to the real site.