Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mozilla hanging on gconfd2 startup? Message-ID: <20040228180719.W99350@root.org> In-Reply-To: <1078019158.18071.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20040228152618.C98870@root.org> <1078019158.18071.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 18:27, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > I can't seem to start mozilla after upgrading the port today. It
> > starts a process called gconfd2 which never completes. I'm running
> > a current as of Friday.
>
> Weird. Seems Mozilla will try to use gconf2 if found (this is neither a
> compile-time nor runtime dependency). However, all of the GConf methods
> are unimplemented. The gconf hang problem may be related to the recent
> reentrant resolver patches so rebuilding devel/gconf2 should fix the
> problem.
This doesn't work.
> Another solution would be to set
>
> user_pref("accessibility.unix.gconf2.shared-library", "xxx_goaway");
>
> in your Mozilla prefs.js file. This will stop Mozilla from loading
> gconfd in the future.
This worked fine.
-Nate
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