On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:34:36 -0700 > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> >> DBus isn't a problem per se, it just can cause issues, when implemented >> >> without thinking about the needs of all users? >> > >> > Right but it's actually much worse than that. Take mozilla firefox even >> > which may or may not have been changed due to me bringing it up on the >> > dev-security list. Without dbus in a chroot it would die, the reason >> > was handling it's text configuration files, which is obviously >> > rediculously pointless and I assume with some confidence, actually quite >> > dumb. >> >> Are you sure about that? I have never seen anything dbus related in >> any version of Mozilla or Firefox, aside from one extension that never >> really when anywhere. > > It does as you can see from the output when running it in a chroot > and for atleast one release it would die. > > (firefox:1515): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS > daemon: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-jEHTNI62oh: Connection > refused > > Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
Odd. Just looked at Dbus with SeaMonkey and Firefox running, nothing from them. Aurora channel, stock mozilla.org versions. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_3xkcYta-xvUt_y5+O_W=pgucskxwhyb7nu+wle6f...@mail.gmail.com
