Happens to me as well, was running Skype(hosted in a xterm window), iceweasel and wine notepad++. It totally froze gdm. Crashed again some time after I restarted gdm, then I just gave up and rebooted, after that the issue gone away.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 at 6:56 am notoneofmy <[email protected]> wrote: > I've attached my system log and perhaps I get help, as no luck with that > big search engine. > > But it appears a bigger problem than iceweasel. > > Thanks a lot. > > On 15-06-02 7:58 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > >>> Anyone here having serious issues with Iceweasel in Jessie. > >> > >> Yes it's a real pig, and resource hog. > >> > >>> I went to install some addons and the computer froze. Had to restart. > >> > >> No, never had that happen. > >> > >>> At other times, the browser had done same; cause the computer to > >>> freeze. > >> > >> Are you sure it froze or it was just Iceweasel hogging the whole system? > > > > I've had firefox do the same. Just run it nekkid, without addons, and > > see the difference. > >

