Youtube killed Epiphany dead

[Mark Haney]

Beartooth wrote:
> Not knowing whether this is an Epiphany problem, a Fedora problem, or
> possibly a Privoxy problem, I have set followups to
> gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> 
> I was running Epiphany-2.14.2.1-1.fc5.1 behind privoxy-3.0.3-9.2.1
> (unmodified, as installed) under Fedora Core 5. A friend sent me a URL,
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8uefBUOfgA which I put into one of eight
> or ten tabs and clicked on. 
> 
> The video -- a clip of a rather hoky-looking blue-eyed penguin, supposedly
> used by a German stand-up comedian named Dieter Nuhr, which turns toward
> the camera and works its beak, supposedly uttering a certain vulgarism. 
> 
> I don't normally do sound, anyway, but decided to try it this time. Never
> got any. Tried to open the Preferences dialog : clicked on Edit, then on
> Preferences; that word took the highlight -- and everything froze.
> 
> I clicked FC5's Force Quit button, and closed Epiphany.
> 
> Now clicking the epiphany icon causes the browser to try to start, and
> then fail. The command line gets me only this : 
> 
> [btth at localhost ~]$ epiphany &
> [1] 18375
> [btth at localhost ~]$
> ** (epiphany:18354): WARNING **: An error occured while calling remote
> method: No reply within specified time
> 
> Then, trying the next thing I could think of, as root, got me things way
> beyond my comprehension : 
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# ps ax | grep epiphany
> 12248 ?        Ssl   21:02 epiphany --sm-config-prefix /epiphany-pXAGFV/
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000115067871600000054740017 --screen 0 18381
> pts/1    R+     0:00 grep epiphany 
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> (I've changed the line ends to get postable length, and moved the new
> prompt to its own line, as it is on my terminal.)
> 
> I suppose I need to know how and where to get into epiphany from the
> command line and get rid of the youtube URL and its tab; do I also need
> more? Anything to do to privoxy or Fedora itself??
> 

Looks to me like epiphany is still running, that Force Quit didn't kill 
it.  Try killing 12248 and see if Epiphany will relaunch.


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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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