Bug#628049: iceweasel: Hangs on startup after removing pcscd

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:15:26PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 4.0.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> I recently acquired a smartcard (for storing security certificates) which uses the
> pcscd package and configured Iceweasel to use it.
> Then I removed pcscd and now Iceweasel hangs on startup. From strace:
> 
> stat("/var/run/pcscd/pcscd.comm", 0x7fff8d8de710) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
> clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f4fd84ca9f0) = 2839
> wait4(2839, 
> ** (firefox-bin:2839): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 24
> 
> ** (firefox-bin:2839): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 22
> NULL, 0, NULL)              = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> 
> 
> With a newly created profile (without a smartcard) it does start.
> Reinstalling pcscd makes iceweasel start again with my old profile.
> 
> I've verified this issue with version 3.5.19-2 and 4.0.1-2 .

Is that reproducible with a fresh profile, after install pcscd and
uninstalling it, but without using a smartcard? (i.e. would I be able to
reproduce?)

Mike