[gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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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:


alan@localhost ~ $ /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
alan@localhost ~ $
(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

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Andrey Falko]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> 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:
>
>
> alan@localhost ~ $ /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
> alan@localhost ~ $
> (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.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:

>
> To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world. 

no. Just no.


> 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.

just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that 
'preserved-libs' stuff. But emerge -e world is almost always the wrong answer. 
And it won't solve anything if he is using a portage version with preserved-
libs. Because in that case dbus might built against the wrong lib again.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
>
> >
> > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
>
> no. Just no.


For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I started
it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an idea was
that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.

I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/





> > 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.
>

It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko browsers,
I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).

>
>
> just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> 'preserved-libs' stuff.


 I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
anything yet.

Thank you for the advice,

Alan Davis

>
>
>


-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

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Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and
>> tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be
>> coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get
>> glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.
>>
> 
> Do you mind to explain a little more?  How would I go about this?  I have a
> few packages that won't build, and glib is one.  Over and over.  gtkmm is
> another.  There is an upstream gtkmm that is said to solve that issue, but I
> haven't gotten the courage to bump an ebuild to a new version.
> 
> How would one rebuild the toolchain?
> 
> 
>> You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and
>> should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming
>> .mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken it
>> only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head
>> needlessly and later on.
> 
> 
> I have tried it as three different users, and have moved .mozilla, used
> firefox2, firefox3, firefox3-bin, epiphany.  The same thing happens.  Moving
> .mozilla has no effect.hem 
> 
> My system has been riddled with these issues of permissions and (I assume)
> dbus and/or hal issues, since when.  The livecd was a mess: took several
> passes even to get a working, booting system.  It's getting better.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Alan
> 
Toolchain refers to glibc, gcc, and binutils.  Try running

emerge glibc gcc binutils

Portage will put them in the correct order.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

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Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
> <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de 
> <mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
> 
>     no. Just no.
> 
>  
> For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It 
> stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I 
> started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an 
> idea was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
> 
> I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
> 

WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and 
tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be 
coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to 
get glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.

>      > 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.
> 
> 
> It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko 
> browsers, I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon). 

You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and 
should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming 
.mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken 
it only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head 
needlessly and later on.

>     just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
>     'preserved-libs' stuff. 

<snip>
> 
> Thank you for the advice,
> 
> Alan Davis

HTH
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Eric Martin
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>>
> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and
> tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be
> coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get
> glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.
>

Do you mind to explain a little more?  How would I go about this?  I have a
few packages that won't build, and glib is one.  Over and over.  gtkmm is
another.  There is an upstream gtkmm that is said to solve that issue, but I
haven't gotten the courage to bump an ebuild to a new version.

How would one rebuild the toolchain?


>
> You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and
> should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming
> .mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken it
> only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head
> needlessly and later on.


I have tried it as three different users, and have moved .mozilla, used
firefox2, firefox3, firefox3-bin, epiphany.  The same thing happens.  Moving
.mozilla has no effect.

My system has been riddled with these issues of permissions and (I assume)
dbus and/or hal issues, since when.  The livecd was a mess: took several
passes even to get a working, booting system.  It's getting better.

Thank you,

Alan

-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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I have reread the GCC upgrade guide.  I skipped the step of fixing libtool,
and recompiling.  So another overnight emerge -e world ...

Thank you, meantime

Alan


>

-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

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Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I have found a script called emwrap.sh  The forum thread attached to that
> script makes it clear it is important to compile the few core TC files twice
> before emerge -e system.  Then do that twice.  Then emerce -e world.  Wow.
> The script is supposed to shorten the overall time, by not recompiling TC
> and system when compiling the rest of the world.  It seems logical.
> 
> I also found some inconsistencies in my USE flags, so it's back to square
> one.  I hope this works.  (I am trying the script).
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
> volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
>>>
>>> volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>>>> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
>>>>> To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
>>>> no. Just no.
>>> For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
>>> stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
>>> started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an
>> idea
>>> was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
>>>
>>> I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>> It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko
>> browsers,
>>> I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
>>>
>>>> just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
>>>> 'preserved-libs' stuff.
>>>  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
>>> about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
>>> would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
>>> with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
>>> anything yet.
>> http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html
>>
>> the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the
>> meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still
>> there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole
>> exercise will be a waste of time and energy.
>>
>>
> 
> 
Please don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the flow of the
list.  Thanks!  Let us know how that turns out with the script.  Also,
where did you find it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
>
> volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> > On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
> >
> > no. Just no.
>
> For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
> stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
> started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an idea
> was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
>
> I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
>
> > > 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.
>
> It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko browsers,
> I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
>
> > just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> > 'preserved-libs' stuff.
>
>  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
> about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
> would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
> with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
> anything yet.

http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html

the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the 
meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still 
there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole 
exercise will be a waste of time and energy.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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I have found a script called emwrap.sh  The forum thread attached to that
script makes it clear it is important to compile the few core TC files twice
before emerge -e system.  Then do that twice.  Then emerce -e world.  Wow.
The script is supposed to shorten the overall time, by not recompiling TC
and system when compiling the rest of the world.  It seems logical.

I also found some inconsistencies in my USE flags, so it's back to square
one.  I hope this works.  (I am trying the script).

Thank you very much.

Alan

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
> >
> > volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> > > On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> > > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
> > >
> > > no. Just no.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
> > stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
> > started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an
> idea
> > was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
> >
> > I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
> >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko
> browsers,
> > I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
> >
> > > just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> > > 'preserved-libs' stuff.
> >
> >  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
> > about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
> > would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
> > with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
> > anything yet.
>
> http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html
>
> the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the
> meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still
> there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole
> exercise will be a waste of time and energy.
>
>


-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I have found a script called emwrap.sh
>


Please don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the flow of the
> list.  Thanks!  Let us know how that turns out with the script.  Also,
> where did you find it?
>
> I apologize for that.

I think this would get it for you.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

Alan


>
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