Re: iceweasel locking up under KDE, fine under Xfce

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Arthur Marsh wrote on 26/11/15 23:10:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote on 25/11/15 08:46:
> > Am Montag, 23. November 2015, 15:30:19 CET schrieb Arthur Marsh:
> > > Arthur Marsh wrote on 19/11/15 16:26:
> > > > It appears that the fix applied to qt5base-opensource-src 5.5.1+dfsg-8
> > > > in relation to the bug: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46323
> > > > has improved things.
> > >
> > > The new gcc-5 libraries seemed to have caused problems also.
> > >
> > > Both iceweasel and chromium locking up today.
> >
> > Both run stable here. With Intel Sandybridge graphics (still on UXA,
> > although
> > EXA might be fine again).
>
> Thanks, I've been able to shut down slightly more gracefully by killing
> the kdeinit5 processes after killing the browser processes.
>
> I've only had one lock-up with chromium started from the KDE start menu
> (kdeinit5) today, but iceweasel still needs to be started from a konsole
> command line to avoid locking up.
>
> Arthur.

With an update to KDE from unstable, iceweasel from unstable locked up 
every time until I upgraded iceweasel to experimental. Now iceweasel 
runs fine under KDE.

As previously mentioned running with Radeon 3200HD (RS780) and vdpau 
libraries installed.

Arthur.