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

[Richard Kettlewell]

On 09/08/2010 08:48, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:25:35PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> On 08/08/2010 08:25, Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> Could you attach a full strace output for iceweasel ?
>>
>> Attached.  Command was "strace -r -q -o trace -f iceweasel".
>
> I think the whole problem is due to this:
> 10037      0.000075 mkdir("/home/richard/.dbus", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> 10037      0.000061 mkdir("/home/richard/.dbus/session-bus", 0700) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> 10037      0.000198 write(2, "Unable to create /home/richard/."..., 49) = 49
> 10037      0.000082 open("/home/richard/.dbus/session-bus/620e4e5789a46d4838ff0b004746dfa0-10", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> Arguably, it shouldn't have such a startup impact, but that would be a
> problem with how dbus operates, imho.
>
> Can you check the permissions in these directories, fix them, and see if
> it works better? If so, we'll reassign to dbus.

*red face*

richard at deodand:~$ ls -ld .dbus
drwx--S--- 3 root richard 4096 Nov 22  2009 .dbus

With that fixed it works fine.

Sorry for the waste of time!

ttfn/rjk