Re: long time firefox & thunderbird problems

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:48:14 +0200
Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

>    I've have two primary suspects: Video drivers and/or dbus.
> 
>    I know from past experience that dbus is a huge source of problems.
> Previously, I had some gtk programs crash on start. I found out that if
> dbus isn't run as a daemon, it will start a dbus user process -- which
> doesn't work properly and may case crashes. I installed dbus as a
> daemon, and I could run those applications which previously kept
> crashing on startup.
> 
>    When I run thundebird or firefox I get this:
> 
> gauss$ ps aux | grep dbus
> jan     12959  0.0  0.0  15020   1596 ?     I    12:07PM 0:00.00
> dbus-launch --autolaunch 342e6f0eae07e7a1b3d628884a5f0efe --binary
> jan     25544  0.0  0.0   9992   1564 ?     Is   12:07PM 0:00.00
> /usr/pkg/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --
> dbus    28999  0.0  0.0   9992   1692 ?     Is   11:58AM 0:00.00
> /usr/pkg/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> 
>    Is this normal?

I think this is caused by GConf. Unfortunately I have NFC how that
stuff works or what it's even supposed to accomplish. All I know is that
firefox does a dlopen() on libgconf-2.so (evil++ given that it's not
even a dependency of the package) and that this is what in turn launches
dbus. You can try to move away libgconf-2.so.* from /usr/pkg/lib,
chances are things might work then.