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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: gnu: icecat: Update to 52.0.2-gnu1;
	add fixes from ESR 52.1.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:34:10 -0400
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@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