Safari fails after Monterey upgrade with "(NSPOSIXErrorDomain:28)"

Since I upgraded my M1 Mac mini to Monterey, I notice that after Safari has been running for a time, it starts to fail to load images. If I try to open a new page when it's in this state, I get this:



However, if I quit Safari and then immediately restart it, opening the same page works correctly.

Mac mini, macOS 12.0

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 9:33 AM

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Feb 9, 2022 12:50 PM in response to Tom Nash

I'm pretty sure this is not related to extensions, since I have not a single one installed.


But I agree that lately, this has been happening less frequently. My guess is that it is somehow related to the memory leak issues in Monterey. Since memory leaks became less immense since the last update, this might explain why we have been observing the behavior less frequently.


Interestingly, it only happens on my 16 GB RAM iMac. It hasn't happened even once on my 8 GB MacBook. Both running exactly the same versions of macOS and Safari all the time.

Feb 9, 2022 11:07 AM in response to Macbonu

Not sure where we are on this, but, my Safari is doing this less than before. When it does happen, quitting Safari and reopening it solves the problem (until it happens again). It was happening many times per day, now it is occasionally, maybe once a week (or less). So, perhaps there has been a fix and my computer updated or something. At any rate, moving to another browser was not a helpful suggestion, because for what we pay for Macs, Safari should work.


Also, I have 2 other Mac desktops and 2 laptops. Safari does not have this problem on them, so I would bet quite a bit that it is a problem with Monterrey.

Feb 9, 2022 11:38 AM in response to jlpate

This is still driving me crazy. If it wasn't for using the integrated keychain across devices for passwords, I would have moved to Firefox and still might if I can't find a solution. Currently I have to quit safari a few times a day and use Firefox when Safari stalls on trying to load a page or stalls half way through a page. One site that this occurs on quite often is Chase.


What I've tried that doesn't seem to solve the issue...

-Disabling Limit IP Tracking in sys pref/networking

-Disabling Sophos Web Protection

-Disabling Malwarebytes

-Disabling LittleSnitch

-Disabling CleanMyMac

-Disable AdBlockPlus extension (although I haven't tried uninstalling it)


I can try using another admin account to see if I run into the problem but it's not easy given you never know when its going to start and can't just use a new empty account while working trying to make it occur. Same with Safe Mode. Given when I just quit and start safari the problem goes away, I don't know what I would learn in safe mode.


I'll probably try uninstalling extensions first. Then one by one uninstall some of the security apps even if disabling the various features doesn't seem to do anything. Not looking forward to doing that.


Frustrating

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