Bug#574244: Two minute iceweasel startup time, due to gconf trouble
Helge Hafting
helge.hafting at broadpark.no
Tue Mar 16 23:18:01 UTC 2010
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.6-3
Severity: normal
When I start iceweasel, even in safe mode, two full minutes pass before
the window appear. After that, browsing seems to work as normal.
But this waiting is not exactly interesting.
I get a small window with a big error message:
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
All the guesses are wrong. The network is up, including loopback. I don't use NFS, and the lockfiles
mentioned in the URL aren't there. "ps aux" reveals a process called /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
I guess iceweasel tried to communicate with that? There are no other processes with "gconf" in the name.
I wish this app would use a simple textfile for its config, instead of this complicated and bug-prone
attempt at communicating with _another process over a network_. The textfile approach works so well for many
other apps, some bigger and some much smaller than iceweasel.
Keep it simple. A single config file under .mozilla. and no big directory tree there either. Well,
I know that won't happen, but one can dream.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-2 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.10-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.13-0lenny1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.5-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii mozplugger 1.13.0-1 Plugin allowing external viewers t
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
pn xulrunner-1.9-gnome-s <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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