Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
> Here's a draft patch to update GNU IceCat to 52.0.2-gnu1, with
> additional fixes cherry-picked from upstream ESR 52.1. It seems to work
> well on my system, except that my GNOME 3 session has locked up a couple
> of times while testing it[*]. I'm not yet sure whether the problem is
> caused by IceCat or something else. I'd appreciate it if other people
> could try it out.
>
> [*] The mouse cursor still moves, and I can switch to text VTs, but
> otherwise the GUI is unresponsive. Killing icecat is not sufficient
> to unfreeze the graphical session, but I'm able to restart the X
> server without rebooting.
Actually, it turns out that I can consistently recover from these
freezes by kill -9 <gnome-shell-pid> from a text console. gnome-session
restarts gnome-shell automatically, and IceCat is still functional.
Mark
