mozilla hanging on gconfd2 startup?

[Nate Lawson]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 18:27, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > I can't seem to start mozilla after upgrading the port today.  It
> > starts a process called gconfd2 which never completes.  I'm running
> > a current as of Friday.
>
> Weird.  Seems Mozilla will try to use gconf2 if found (this is neither a
> compile-time nor runtime dependency).  However, all of the GConf methods
> are unimplemented.  The gconf hang problem may be related to the recent
> reentrant resolver patches so rebuilding devel/gconf2 should fix the
> problem.

This doesn't work.

> Another solution would be to set
>
> user_pref("accessibility.unix.gconf2.shared-library", "xxx_goaway");
>
> in your Mozilla prefs.js file.  This will stop Mozilla from loading
> gconfd in the future.

This worked fine.

-Nate