freeze in programming refers to a condition where in the concerned code or system becomes unresponsive.
Questions tagged [freeze]
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Tips on solving 'DevTools was disconnected from the page' and Electron Helper dies
I've a problem with Electron where the app goes blank. i.e. It becomes a white screen. If I open the dev tools it displays the following message.
In ActivityMonitor I can see the number of Electron Helper processes drops from 3 to 2 when this…

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Joomla! 3 installation freezes at creating database table
I am trying to install Joomla! 3.2.1 on my system but the installation freezes half way through. I've downloaded and installed the Wamp Server 2.4 and wanted to locally install Joomla! 3.2.1, but the installation freezes and doesn't finish.
It…

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Android - Key Dispatching Timed Out
In my Android application I am getting a very strange crash, when I press a button (Image) on my UI the entire application freezes and after a couple of seconds I getthe dreaded force close dialog appearing.
Here is what gets printed in the…

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Is there a way to not wait for a system() command to finish? (in c)
Similar to:
program not executing anything after a call to system()
I am fairly new to using C but basically, I want to execute the following line:
int a = system("python -m plotter");
which will launch a python module I developed. However, I…

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HttpClient hangs when doing a second request
I'm writing a java app that can login and shop around on the website. I'm having an issue where my HttpClient is hanging when I try to execute a second HttpResponse/Post. It was working fine before, not sure why it started hanging up. I don't get…

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How to Freeze First Column of WPF DataGrid
I have a WPF DataGrid..
I want to freeze first column of that WPF DataGrid while horizontal scrlling..
My code is:

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SSMS SQL SERVER Management Studio 2012 startup freeze
I have a strange situation. IT installed SSMS on my laptop and it runs well the first time, connected to my SQL servers remotely etc. But then it's frozen. I forced quit and then started SSMS again. Now it's totally frozen, no popup window at…

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Slow application, frequent JVM hangs with single-CPU setups and Java 12+
We have a client application (with 10+ years of development). Its JDK was upgraded from OpenJDK 11 to OpenJDK 14 recently. On single-CPU (hyper-threading disabled) Windows 10 setups (and inside VirtualBox machines with only one available CPU) the…

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IOS semaphore_wait_trap on main thread causing hang in UI
I have a long running function inside an asynchronous (serial) worker queue.
I know that sometimes this function hangs inside a particular openCV call.
For some reason this hang is also causing the main thread to hang.
When pausing and entering…

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How to retrieve pip requirements (freeze) within Python?
I posted this question on the git issue tracker: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2969
Can we have some manner of calling pip freeze/list within python, i.e. not a shell context?
I want to be able to import pip and do something like requirements…

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Android GoogleAnalytics getInstance
in Application class, in create method I call GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this) and application just freezes...on any device
Worked fine with google play services 6.1, now it's 6.5 and I have no idea what could cause this....
Any ideas?
public class…

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SOS does not support the current target architecture
I am trying to use windbg to research a hang dump file created on an x64 machine for our x86 process. This is a 4.0 x86 application, so just to get an unmanaged stack, I had to do the following:
.loadby sos clr
.load wow64exts
!sw
kL
However,…

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Chrome hangs when debugging in Visual Studio 2022
When hitting F5 to debug a C# .Net Core website the Chrome browser that automatically launches will hang. This started after I upgraded to VS 2022 17.5.2 today (from 17.2 something). I was able to debug fine in the new VS version until it crashes…

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pip freeze doesn't show package version
Over the weekends I have upgraded my Ubuntu to 20.04, and I tried creating virtualenvironment with python 3.8.2, and pip install requirements.txt.
In requirement.txt, I am installing some code from private gitlab repositories.
Previously, if I do…

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WPF render thread hangs
I'm experiencing a problem in a wpf app where the render thread stops rendering, but the UI thread and helper threads are still pumping messages.
It appears to be related to the corruption of the presentation font cache, however this seems unlikely,…

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