I better not see the player in a crash loop of sorts; When i kill -2 (pid of player) and then restart it from the bash prompt from telnetting in it runs like normal, and I see the "notify" output before it "hangs"

But... I have a guess, which I'm about to try, before I try looking at 0x1c, because I can do it from here instead of getting up. One other thing changed: I let the emphatic installer play with config.ini. I forgot about that.