Bug 158951 - Web Inspector completely empty
Summary: Web Inspector completely empty
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Inspector (show other bugs)
Version: Safari 9
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.11
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: InRadar
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-06-20 12:25 PDT by lepolt
Modified: 2017-02-10 20:26 PST (History)
3 users (show)

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Empty inspector (29.60 KB, image/png)
2016-06-20 12:25 PDT, lepolt
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Description lepolt 2016-06-20 12:25:47 PDT
Created attachment 281661 [details]
Empty inspector

All tabs are completely empty and never update with data. Have tried restarting Safari, but the Web Inspector is non-responsive. I've been trying to use the Safari Web Inspector in place of the Chrome dev tools, but so far it has been a less than pleasant experience.
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2016-06-20 12:33:51 PDT
<rdar://problem/26898705>
Comment 2 Joseph Pecoraro 2016-06-20 13:06:20 PDT
Can you clarify what revision of WebKit / Safari this was? System Safari, WebKit Nightly, Safari Technology Preview?
Comment 3 lepolt 2016-06-27 04:02:43 PDT
Safari 9.1.1 (11601.6.17)
Comment 4 Joseph Pecoraro 2016-06-27 12:12:20 PDT
• Does the issue reproduce on every page?
• Does the issue reproduce for you in WebKit Nightly or Safari Technology Preview?

I highly suspect you are running into some kind of uncaught exception in the inspector frontend. There are some steps you can run to provide us with more information. Would you be willing? (The steps are mostly on <https://wiki.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspectorDebugging>).
Comment 5 Joseph Pecoraro 2016-06-27 12:14:19 PDT
Namely, I think you can enable these defaults and restart Safari.

defaults write com.apple.Safari "com.apple.Safari.ContentGroupPageIdentifier.WebKit2LogsPageMessagesToSystemConsoleEnabled" -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitLogsPageMessagesToSystemConsoleEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDebugLogsPageMessagesToSystemConsoleEnabled -bool YES

And then check syslog (Console.app) for some output. You can then do -bool NO and restart Safari to disable the logs.
Comment 6 BJ Burg 2017-02-10 20:26:34 PST
We lack insufficient information to proceed with this bug. Please reopen if you are able to provide Joe with some more information.