Bug#591397: Iceweasel produces error popups before starting and runs incredibly slowly
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Mon Aug 2 20:12:23 UTC 2010
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:18:45PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell <rjk at terraraq.org.uk> wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.11-1
>
> Iceweasel runs extremely slowly in my unstable VM. This is a relatively
> new development (it used to be acceptable fast).
>
> First, it displays dialog box but removes it too quickly to read it,
> then after a while displays one which reads:
>
> An error occurred while loading or saving
> configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of
> your configuration settings may not work properly.
>
> There are Details and OK buttons, neither of which appear to do anything.
>
> After waiting a bit more a large, empty window appears. A bit after
> that the title changes to match the page I wanted to visit. With
> sufficient patience it does actually display the web page.
>
> System load remains very low (<0.1) during all of this.
>
> An strace fragment while it's failing to get anywhere:
>
It sounds like you have a dangling dbus session: a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
environment variable, but no corresponding session. Try unsetting that
environment variable.
Mike
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