-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces. I could go and close windows one by one, but on restart it would be impossible to restart all of them. I have to close all of them at one go so that restore previous sesion works. So the only thing to do is "killall firefox". And not always works. I did: cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 bash: kill: (6793) - No such process <=== the parent process of all of them - no dice cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found <=== but I could see it was still running. cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: no process found <=== now it worked. cer@Telcontar:~> Of course, this also killed my other running profile (or instance, if you will). Is there a better way? Maybe a kill command that automatically finds and kill all siblings at a single go? Anybody has seen this problem? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9QZ5Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVdC0AnR5NKeo6LI7ZjBrzVxgp lIgw5K0GAJ0da7bTrsOmkuzj1yz94gpyB0MkWw== =c1NF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [01-27-23 13:39]:
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Hi,
It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces.
I could go and close windows one by one, but on restart it would be impossible to restart all of them. I have to close all of them at one go so that restore previous sesion works.
So the only thing to do is "killall firefox". And not always works. I did:
cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 bash: kill: (6793) - No such process <=== the parent process of all of them - no dice cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found <=== but I could see it was still running. cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: no process found <=== now it worked. cer@Telcontar:~>
Of course, this also killed my other running profile (or instance, if you will).
Is there a better way? Maybe a kill command that automatically finds and kill all siblings at a single go?
Anybody has seen this problem?
- -- Cheers
Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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killall -o $(pidof <application>) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2023-01-27 at 15:54 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [01-27-23 13:39]:
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Is there a better way? Maybe a kill command that automatically finds and kill all siblings at a single go?
killall -o $(pidof <application>)
No, that kills all instances, different profiles, different parents. cer@Telcontar:~> pidof firefox *32636* 32439 31939 31805 22639 22552 22504 22140 22117 21878 21786 21691 21617 21610 21549 21437 21428 21421 21268 21207 21160 21116 21042 21032 20880 20611 20603 20600 20593 20584 20579 20572 20563 20558 20550 20544 20535 20528 20519 20512 20506 20499 20495 20487 20479 20473 20470 20468 20433 20225 20184 19969 19926 *19768* 11862 11522 11407 10307 10250 4916 4865 4776 4641 2795 2453 1048 1045 908 841 803 756 753 650 645 640 592 535 510 cer@Telcontar:~> cer 6710 0.0 0.0 657712 23600 ? Sl Jan23 0:22 \_ xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 265707e8d-4586-43e3-8888-e31eccb9e8d1 cer 6723 0.0 0.0 641872 30020 ? Sl Jan23 0:05 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 1 18874375 whiskermenu Whisker Menu Show a menu to easily access instal> cer 22259 0.0 0.0 892764 18568 ? Sl Jan25 0:02 | | \_ gnome-calculator cer *19768* 5.0 2.5 6080584 1660972 ? Sl 12:12 29:42 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -P Small cer 19926 0.0 0.0 374388 46228 ? Sl 12:12 0:00 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20230116094357 -prefsLen 35312 -prefMapSize 233114 -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 1976> cer 19969 0.0 0.2 2702532 162708 ? Sl 12:12 0:05 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 35350 -prefMapSize 233114 -jsInitLen 277276 -parentBuildID 20230116094> cer 20184 0.0 0.2 27948588 195792 ? Sl 12:12 0:29 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 39979 -prefMapSize 233114 -jsInitLen 277276 -parentBuildID 20230116094> ... cer 5318 0.0 0.0 19136 3472 pts/32 Ss+ Jan25 0:00 | \_ bash cer *32636* 0.8 0.7 4182392 464764 pts/32 Sl 19:17 1:17 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox --ProfileManager cer 510 0.0 0.0 374380 48328 pts/32 Sl 19:17 0:00 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20230116094357 -prefsLen 31845 -prefMapSize 219420 -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 3263> cer 535 0.0 0.2 2637772 158424 pts/32 Sl 19:17 0:01 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 31921 -prefMapSize 219420 -jsInitLen 277276 -parentBuildID 20230116094> cer 592 0.0 0.1 2620228 121512 pts/32 Sl 19:17 0:00 | | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 36591 -prefMapSize 219420 -jsInitLen 277276 -parentBuildID 20230116094> ... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9Q8aBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV3PoAnjliL5KjlLks3azeQ9Mr 4o4+/ymJAJ9mW9xr9LTPfRLSJ1JIBH+KeQWBaw== =1PSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 1/27/23 12:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces.
Sometimes hardware acceleration can cause issues. In about:config check media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled (default true) media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled (default false) You can test disabling the first and see if that prevents the problem to begin with. (I had similar issues in the past, but past year or so I haven't see the issue again) Also, if you have another app that demands high-res graphics -- that can cause problems in FF as well. (it shouldn't, but I have had that happen) I don't know if X or Wayland or the graphics driver is the cause of it. Or it may be a cock-up in Gtk that is the cause. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 2023-01-28 02:08, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 1/27/23 12:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces.
Sometimes hardware acceleration can cause issues. In about:config check
media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled (default true)
Yes.
media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled (default false)
Yes
You can test disabling the first and see if that prevents the problem to begin with. (I had similar issues in the past, but past year or so I haven't see the issue again)
Huh. I may have to wait for a month for the thing to happen again.
Also, if you have another app that demands high-res graphics -- that can cause problems in FF as well. (it shouldn't, but I have had that happen) I don't know if X or Wayland or the graphics driver is the cause of it. Or it may be a cock-up in Gtk that is the cause.
There was another firefox, thunderbird... nothing very demanding.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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