Bug#591397: Iceweasel produces error popups before starting and runs incredibly slowly

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:12:37PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> On 04/08/2010 19:41, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> >Thanks. It looks like it's blocking on dbus access triggered by gconf.
> >Do other gconf using programs have the same problem ?
> >Is dbus installed and  running on your system ?
> 
> It looks like dbus is running:
> 
> richard at deodand:~$ ps -ef |grep dbus
> 103        906     1  0 Aug02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
> --system
> richard  23759 23744  0 20:05 pts/0    00:00:00 grep dbus
> 
> gconf doesn't seem to take unreasonably long, using an example from
> the man page:
> 
> richard at deodand:~$ time gconftool-2 --get
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background
> 
> real	0m0.125s
> user	0m0.104s
> sys	0m0.020s
> 
> ...but strace indicates that command just reads files rather than
> doing any IPC, so I could be checking in the wrong way.

Could you attach a full strace output for iceweasel ?

Mike