On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:18:45PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 3.5.11-1 > > Iceweasel runs extremely slowly in my unstable VM. This is a relatively > new development (it used to be acceptable fast). > > First, it displays dialog box but removes it too quickly to read it, > then after a while displays one which reads: > > An error occurred while loading or saving > configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of > your configuration settings may not work properly. > > There are Details and OK buttons, neither of which appear to do anything. > > After waiting a bit more a large, empty window appears. A bit after > that the title changes to match the page I wanted to visit. With > sufficient patience it does actually display the web page. > > System load remains very low (<0.1) during all of this. > > An strace fragment while it's failing to get anywhere: >
It sounds like you have a dangling dbus session: a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable, but no corresponding session. Try unsetting that environment variable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
