Re: IceApe/IceWeael stability problems - What did I mess up?

Michael and Nicole Freeman <mnfreeman@xxxxxxx> writes:

I've really come to enjoy and appreciate Linux (aside from a
couple things - support for newer Flash files and the ability to check
the ink levels and clean the heads on my Epson 777 printer).

For the latter, did you try escputil?

One thing I did wrong, I discovered after about a month of
use, was that when I installed Linux and re-installed OS 9 (still had
a couple Apps I want to run there), I evenly split my stock 7Gb Hard
Drive into two ~3.5Gb partitions. I quickly ran out of room on Linux,
and after uninstalling unneeded OS 9 software had more than enough
space there. The only way I could get the extra space moved over to
the Linux partition was to completely re-partition and re-install. I
could shrink the MacOS partition, but couldn't increase the size of
the Linux partition for some reason.

The Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) can be useful here. You can
shrink and extend logical volumes (LVs) and the filesystems which they
contain.

I wanted to save all the files and settings I had accumulated
on Linux, and not understanding the consequences of doing this, I just
backed up all the files in my user account Home folder (including
hidden files). I re-partitioned and re-installed, got all my software
back in place, and copied the files back over to my Home folder - but
I was in my root account :(. Everything in that folder was overwritten
but the owner was set to root. It of course wouldn't log into my user
account. I did a chown command on the entire folder, and that seemed
to have solved the problem, until I ran IceApe and IceWeasel. They
crash a *lot* now. Sometimes a specific site crashes it right
away. Other times a site will load, but crash when I try to scroll
down the page. This doesn't happen in Epiphany - it's very stable, but
I don't like Epiphany as well as the others. Also, IceApe's HTML
Composer won't load at all, which is new, too.

I've tried completely removing both pieces of software,
including deleting any and all Mozilla/IceApe/IceWeasel-related files
in my Home folder. But, when I re-install them, the problem
returns. Any suggestions? Remember, I'm a newbie coming from the
heavily GUI'd MacOS, so go easy on me! :) Thanks!

In this case, I would "rm -rf" any dotfiles in your home directory to
do with Mozilla et. al.. Also, as root, run "chown -R user:group
/home/user" to make sure every file in your home is owned by you.


Regards,
Roger

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