ERROR desktop.min.css.map

May 11, 2022

Hello. We are having a problem with a course, students sometimes report problems with it.
Using Chrome's code inspector we get the following warning:
DevTools failed to load source map: Failed to load content from https....html5/lib/stylesheets/desktop.min.css.map: HTTP Error: status code 404, net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE
Could that be the problem and how to fix it? Thank you

11 Replies
Kelly Auner

Hi Tresa, and welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community! ✨

I'm sorry to hear that you're receiving this error message. I'm happy to help troubleshoot! I'd like to ask a few clarifying questions to start.

  • Is the course uploaded to a web server or an LMS?
  • When do you encounter this error? Is it when launching the course or while viewing it?
  • Does this happen with one specific course or multiple courses?

I'll look out for your response!

Jannis Goossens

Hi,

I have the same problem - a certain slide doesn't load and in the Dev-Console of Chrome (Version 115.0.5790.110) I receive the

https://redacted/desktop.min.css.map: HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE

as posted above.

In Firefox, there is no problem, also when launched locally, all runs fine, even in Chrome.

The course is just uploaded on a standard webserver, no LMS.

Do you already have fix or a workaround or some hint what causes this in Chrome?

Jürgen Schoenemeyer

this error message is only if you open the browser console and has no effect for the operability

background: the library scripts in the web player are minimized and the .map files are only for debugging the javascript (Update: or css)

@articulate: you should fix this glitch - it distracts from the real errors

 

Jürgen Schoenemeyer

the fix is very easy (for articulate*)

remove in the file "./stylesheets/desktop.min.css" the text at the end

/*# sourceMappingURL=desktop.min.css.map */

and in "./stylesheets/mobile.min.css" the text

/*# sourceMappingURL=mobile.min.css.map */

or add the files "desktop.min.css.map", "mobile.min.css.map" to the published files

* if you do this for yourself, you have to redo it after (every) publish

Jannis Goossens

THANKS again, Jürgen, very nice!

Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem with endless loading one specific slide in Chrome.

As said, this only occurs in Chrome and only when loaded from a server.

In Firefox there is no problem with the slide and also in Chrome when started from a local folder, all runs fine. I will now try to rebuild the slide differently and see if I'm lucky :-)

@articulate: I can of course share error codes from my Chrome Debug console, if this helps researching.

Jannis Goossens

Guys, to let you know, I found the problem.

In my specific case it was an mp4-file I added on the slide, which - for whatever reasons - caused a problem in Chrome when loaded from a server. Maybe something in the video codec or whatever. Switching on Storyline's automatic compression feature on this mp4 solved the issue for me.

Thanks again for your support, Jürgen!

Cheers