I recently changed from gnome to LXDE and now I don't have gconf anymore running (and also no dbus --session daemon anymore). Ever since I get for (firefox and) thunderbird the below warning at startup. Then I recompiled my complete system without dbus and gnome USEFLAG. Because I thought that this would tell thunderbird not to expect (depend on) either dbus or gnome(i.e. gconf) anymore. But the warning still appears. As the DETAILS message talks about gconf and dbus I am not sure... /1st/ Is the missing gconf the problem? But then how is it on a KDE system that (I imagine) also would not have a gconf daemon running? ...And how about systems without KDE and GNOME? AND/OR /2nd/ Is the missing dbus the problem? Does this mean thunderbird /needs/ dbus? (for what? - to talk to whom (which other application)?) And if yes, what is then the dbus useflag for? As you can see: I am a bit lost. So I am not sure if this is an ebuild problem or a bug in thunderbird or a works-as-it-should phenomenon. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Starting thunderbird (or firefox) 2. 3. Actual Results: I get a popup with this message + these DETAILS in a textbox below it: =========================================================================== An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for firefox. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DETAILS: 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: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-F9CwWhIZ1W: Connection refused) 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: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-F9CwWhIZ1W: Connection refused) 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: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-F9CwWhIZ1W: Connection refused) 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: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-F9CwWhIZ1W: Connection refused) 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: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-F9CwWhIZ1W: Connection refused) =========================================================================== Expected Results: No pop-up and: No need for dbus (because thunderbird should just run as an independend X program ... which cuts down maybe some functionality, but I would not care). ...and/or... No need for gconf (because I am not running gnome, because thunderbird can use a config file to store whatever config it needs to store). For dependency reasons these are the only packages left with an enabled gnome useflag (but they seem not related to thunderbird, or are they maybe?): =========================================================================== eix -I -e --installed-with-use gnome -c [I] app-portage/cfg-update (1.8.2-r1@17/01/10): Easy to use GUI & CLI alternative for etc-update with safe automatic updating functionality [I] gnome-base/gvfs (1.2.3@01/08/09): GNOME Virtual Filesystem Layer [I] gnome-extra/gucharmap (2.26.3.1@10/01/10): Unicode character map viewer [I] gnome-extra/libgsf (1.14.15@03/12/09): The GNOME Structured File Library [I] net-libs/libsoup (2.28.2(2.4)@11/03/10): An HTTP library implementation in C [I] x11-libs/goffice (0.6.6(0.6)@30/04/09): A library of document-centric objects and utilities =========================================================================== emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31.3-nogo-pixel i686) 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You have corrupted your profiles. Please test with clean profiles, if your still able to duplicate the bug assign to mozilla herd, if not please close invalid.
Thank you very much for the fast response. I would appreciate a lot if you could explain me what this means: "you have corrupted your profile"? How did I do this? How can I fix it? P.S.: I googled for "gentoo corrupted profile" and "gentoo corrupt profile" but (I think) nothing useful came up.
I forgot: I suppose you are talking about the Gentoo profile like in: eselect profile list But it says below that I am using profile 2, no? Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop * [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened [8] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86 [9] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop [10] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer [11] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server Sorry for the probably lame question(s)!
(In reply to comment #2) > Thank you very much for the fast response. > > I would appreciate a lot if you could explain me what this means: "you have > corrupted your profile"? > > How did I do this? > > How can I fix it? > > P.S.: > I googled for "gentoo corrupted profile" and "gentoo corrupt profile" but (I > think) nothing useful came up. > These are your mozilla profiles not gentoo profiles. mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak and start firefox will produce a clean profile. If all works well there I can give you instructions on how to restore boookmarks and ect.
OF COURSE !!! :)) Somehow I had forgotten about these profiles. So: mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.ORIG Was NOT enough. Then I emptied my complete homedirectory and voila now the problem is gone and thudnerbird and firefox startup faster :) Thanks a bunch again!
