From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 02:17:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D955106567D for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E522B8FC0A for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080702021728.CMUD22786.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:17:28 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id kqHS1Z00D4iy4EG02qHSdH; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:17:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:19:44 -0500 To: "Jan Henrik Sylvester" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <486A4D1C.7060106@janh.de> <486A6E50.5060301@janh.de> <486AC31A.6050702@janh.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <486AC31A.6050702@janh.de> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (Linux) Cc: gnome-list freebsd Subject: Re: firefox3 error, gconf related on none gnome system X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:17:28 -0000 On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:54 -0500, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >>>> Starting firefox3, I always get this annoying error: >>>> >>>> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ > > Sorry for the fuss. I recompiled gconf2 and the error disappeared. > > Previously, I had gconf2 installed as a package from > ftp/packages-7-stable, now I did compile the same version myself. > > It might be the difference that the package has been build on pointyhat > or my system. > > Otherwise, it proves that my attempt to rid my 7-RELEASE system from > 7-STABLE packages that are incompatible failed: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html > gconf does not use any FBSD symbols that are not FBSD_1.0, but still > seems to be incompatible. > > Sorry again and thanks for you attempt to help! No problem and your report actually helps a bit. It looks like I will have to add autocheck of gconf dependency. If gconf exists and Firefox 3 will build with it without provide optional to disable it. Cheers, Mezz > Cheers, > Jan Henrik -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org