Bug 579828 – Remote firefox (via SSH) does not work after system upgrade

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Dirk Gouders 2016-04-13 12:36:10 UTC]

After a system upgrade, firefox
on a remote machine (connected to via SSH, not upgraded) does not
open a browser-window, anymore.

Launching thunderbird gives the same result, other applications
(e.g. Emacs, Xterm, all remote) do work as usual.  I use Xfce4.

I tried to find any messages in logfiles or with strace that help me to solve this problem, but had no luck -- I have too few knowledge
about the technologies involved.

Please let me know, what other information I should provide.

# emerge --info
Portage 2.2.28 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-5.3.0, glibc-2.22-r3, 4.4.0 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.4.0-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-4590T_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     8083312 total,   5855852 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8388604 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:50:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42-r2
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42-r2::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r3::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.11-r2::gentoo, 3.4.3-r7::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.5.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.1::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.20.5::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1-r1::gentoo, 1.15-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo, 5.3.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.5::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.22-r3::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

Installed sets: @system
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.3/conf"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/data/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif glamor gpm gtk iconv ipv6 java jpeg lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline sdl seccomp session sockets spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vhosts vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de de_DE en en_GB" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev i915 i965 intel vesa vga" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Dirk Gouders 2016-04-13 13:27:25 UTC]

Some more information:

* I also cannot start firefox in the other direction,
  switching SSH client and server (both machines have desktop environment,
  they don't share home directories).

* I installed firefox-bin-44.0.2 on another machine (a server
  that is not used for desktop applications)
  and can launch it in an SSH session -- everything fine.

* Using that firefox-44.0.2 on the problematic machine
  (via binary package) results in no browser-window.

[Comment 2 Adam Feldman 2016-04-13 17:57:28 UTC]

(In reply to Dirk Gouders from comment #1)
> Some more information:
> 
> * I also cannot start firefox in the other direction,
>   switching SSH client and server (both machines have desktop environment,
>   they don't share home directories).
> 
> * I installed firefox-bin-44.0.2 on another machine (a server
>   that is not used for desktop applications)
>   and can launch it in an SSH session -- everything fine.
> 
> * Using that firefox-44.0.2 on the problematic machine
>   (via binary package) results in no browser-window.

I would advise troubleshooting in IRC, on forums or on the ML.  Bugzilla isn't a good place to get tech support.  Feel free to re-open the bug after troubleshooting fails (indicating there is a bug, rather than a quirk with your system config).