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tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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[SOLVED] Firefox: failed to contact configuration server.

When I start firefox, the full error message is:

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

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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Failed to waitpid() for babysitter intermediate process: No child processes)
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Failed to waitpid() for babysitter intermediate process: No child processes)
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Failed to waitpid() for babysitter intermediate process: No child processes)
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Failed to waitpid() for babysitter intermediate process: No child processes)
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Failed to waitpid() for babysitter intermediate process: No child processes)

I don't have dbus or hal running, as I have disabled input-hotplugging. Is there any way to fix this?
Also, before I start firefox, I have 0 dbus processes running, and after it gives me that error message, I get:

pgrep dbus | wc -l
381

I have switched to chrome which doesn't seem to have any troubles. I would really like to have firefox though.

NVM: I went through the config options for firefox, and --disable-dbus exists

Last edited by tomd123 (2010-01-09 20:24:55)