On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having fits about dbus, at least that's what I think? > > Firefox 3, epiphany, and firefox 3 bin all do this. Attach any file (as any > user, on KDE or Gnome) and firefox immediately crashes. Root can attach > files. > > Some background. > > Today I upgraded these before I noticed this problem: dev-libs/expat, > net-misc/dhcpcd, > dev-cpp/libglademm, dev-cpp/gconfmm, net-dns/bind-tools, > mail-mta/ssmtp, sys-apps/coreutils. > > Yesterday it worked. Of course I"ve been twiddling. > > I found a suggestion to run firefox in safe-mode ($ firefox -safe-mode). I > did this. It's just a way to dismember the add-ons and customizations of a > user, and I'd already recompiled. But these errors were received after the > crash in the terminal: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode > which: no soundwrapper in > (/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.1:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin) > which: no soundwrapper in > (/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.1:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin) > process 14444: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were > incorrect, assertion "(error) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((error))" > failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3289. > This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. > D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace > Aborted > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > (npviewer.bin:6437): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion > `style->attach_count > 0' failed > > > I am most interested in learning how to troubleshoot dbus. I read one post > where the suggestion was made to delete dbus. What does that mean? I've > been having numerous problems with permissions. They are gradually going > away, and I just emailed a friend that the system has finally stablized to > some degree. Then I did an # emerge -uDv world and this happens. Where can > I find out more about dbus? > > gtkmm won't compile. There's an upstream fix, I think, and I might do a > local version bump, with much trepidation. > > Thank you for any advice. > > > > > > -- > Alan Davis > > "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." > ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man > >
This is likely a bug with dbus. Before you submit a bug report to the dbus people, I'd try to eliminate certain factors. First, some library that dbus depends on might have been upgraded, causing dbus to work improperly. Second, perhaps its some bug that has appeared with firefox3 and not in firefox2 (correct me if I understood you wrong: attaching a file anywhere in the system makes firefox3 crash). To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world. This will rebuild all of the packages on your system in the correct order. The second factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.
