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Asked: 2013-01-09 13:44:36 +0800 CST

Firefox sluggish, printing error message

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I am using Firefox via ssh on the following machine:

g1> head -1 /etc/motd
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64)
g1> firefox -version
Mozilla Firefox 17.0.1

When called from an xterm, the following message appears repeatedly. It seems to be printed only when I perform some action, like writing this question. Clicking on something. Otherwise, no message is printed.

(firefox:4162): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
//bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message

While writing this question I received about a dozen such messages.

Is there some way to avoid this (apart from 2> /dev/null)?

Probably, the following is irrelevant, but who knows:

g1> uname -a
Linux g1 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 17:49:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
12.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use the program dbus-launch to get around this issue. So before you start Firefox type export $(dbus-launch). Now you can start Firefox. However there might another error message appear. If yes you can work around with export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED. Now Firefox should start without error messages or warnings.

    Can can put that alltogether in a shell script:

    #!/bin/sh
export $(dbus-launch)
export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED
firefox &

    If no dbus-launch is installed on your system, you should install the package dbus-x11. The program is part of this package.

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  2. Same problem but I think it was related to installing other software... I apt-get purged everything, then did an apt-get install dbus-launch, and finally an apt-get autoremove

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