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  Iceweasel hangs Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-10-16 17:30 +0200
    Re: Iceweasel hangs Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-10-16 19:10 +0200
      Re: Iceweasel hangs Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-16 19:40 +0200
        Re: Iceweasel hangs Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org> - 2020-10-16 21:30 +0200

#227874 — Iceweasel hangs

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Iceweasel has been running okay on a Debian Jessie desktop for a long time.

Lately, it keeps hanging. It was noticed that the following message
appeared in an xterm window :

###!!![Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error:
PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was
deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure).

What does the above message mean ?

Is it related to Iceweasel hanging ?

There is no problem with the internet connection since another browser
works okay.

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#227877

On 10/16/20 6:21 PM, Mick Ab wrote:
> Iceweasel has been running okay on a Debian Jessie desktop for a long time.
> 
> Lately, it keeps hanging. It was noticed that the following message
> appeared in an xterm window :
> 
> ###!!![Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error:
> PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was
> deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure).
> 
> What does the above message mean ?
> 
> Is it related to Iceweasel hanging ?
> 
> There is no problem with the internet connection since another browser
> works okay.
> 


Hi Mick,

it's difficult for me to say what the problem is with this limited
information.

Debian Jessie is not supported even as LTS anymore. If I was you then I
would try to use FireFox binaries provided by mozilla.org.

HTH

Kind regards
Georgi

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#227878

On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 19:56 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
[...]
> Debian Jessie is not supported even as LTS anymore. If I was you then I
> would try to use FireFox binaries provided by mozilla.org.

I would second that, or upgrade to a newer version of Debian.
Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near the public internet with a web
browser that has a couple of years of unfixed security vulnerabilities.

-- 
Tixy

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#227883

Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> writes:

> On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 19:56 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> [...]
>> Debian Jessie is not supported even as LTS anymore. If I was you then I
>> would try to use FireFox binaries provided by mozilla.org.
>
> I would second that, or upgrade to a newer version of Debian.
> Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near the public internet with a web
> browser that has a couple of years of unfixed security vulnerabilities.

Agreed.

However, if you are pining to keep using this browser for some reason, I
would run `strace` on the process and see what information is shown where the freeze occurs.

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
brettg@gnu.org
https://brettgilio.com/
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