Bug#829557: firefox: error box at start-up / D-BUS related issue

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: firefox
Version: 47.0.1-1
Severity: important

When starting Firefox, I get an error box saying:

  An error occurred while loading or saving configuration for firefox.
  Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

                                                            Details

                                                               OK

None of the "Details" and "OK" buttons are clickable.

In the terminal:

(firefox:10683): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-QfZ0w9XNaC: Connection refused

(firefox:10683): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-QfZ0w9XNaC: Connection refused

(firefox:10683): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-QfZ0w9XNaC: Connection refused

(firefox:10683): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-QfZ0w9XNaC: Connection refused

-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.4
ii  libasound2                1.1.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.22-13
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.106-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2+b1
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-4
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-8
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.48.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.30-2
ii  libhunspell-1.4-0         1.4.1-2
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3                   2:3.23-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.13.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-8
ii  libvpx3                   1.5.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.2-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.11-3
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

firefox recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox suggests:
ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-3
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-3
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3.1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.14.2+dfsg-1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information