firefox3 error, gconf related on none gnome system

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:54 -0500, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de>  
wrote:

>>>> Starting firefox3, I always get this annoying error:
>>>>
>>>> Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that  
>>>> you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS  
>>>> locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
>
> Sorry for the fuss. I recompiled gconf2 and the error disappeared.
>
> Previously, I had gconf2 installed as a package from  
> ftp/packages-7-stable, now I did compile the same version myself.
>
> It might be the difference that the package has been build on pointyhat  
> or my system.
>
> Otherwise, it proves that my attempt to rid my 7-RELEASE system from  
> 7-STABLE packages that are incompatible failed:  
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html  
> gconf does not use any FBSD symbols that are not FBSD_1.0, but still  
> seems to be incompatible.
>
> Sorry again and thanks for you attempt to help!

No problem and your report actually helps a bit. It looks like I will have  
to add autocheck of gconf dependency. If gconf exists and Firefox 3 will  
build with it without provide optional to disable it.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Cheers,
> Jan Henrik


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