Dear Steven, I did - a "git reset --hard" and IJulia worked. Appreciate your kind help. You are right, when IJulia crashed first for some reason, I had done the following and most probably I did something wrong.
> `````` " If IJulia is crashing (e.g. it gives you a "kernel appears to have died" message), you can modify it to print more descriptive error messages to the terminal: edit your IJulia/src/IJulia.jl <https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/blob/master/src/IJulia.jl> file (in your .julia package directory) to change the lineverbose = false at the top to verbose = true and const capture_stderr = true to const capture_stderr = false. Then restart the kernel or open a new notebook and look for the error message when IJulia dies ` > `````````` On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 2:54:03 PM UTC+3, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 3:21:25 AM UTC-4, ÜÖ wrote: >> >> Dear Steven, Thank you very much for your help . The respective part of >> output of Pkg.status() >> >> - IJulia 1.1.9 a675ac5c >> (dirty) >> > > "dirty" means you have edited a file there, and you must have introduced > an error. Do a "git reset --hard" in the IJulia directory to return it to > a pristine state. >