Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> > If I were you I would uninstall, delete /usr/lib/mozilla, and reinstall
> > (maybe a more recent version-- 1.4 is stable now).
>
> I built 1.4-2 from source.  It made no apparent difference.  I tried
> renaming the plugins directory.  I tried installing all the parts of
> mozilla.  It still crashes on about plugins.  The log info looks the
> same too.

Maybe something in your ~/.mozilla directory is causing the problem.  Does it 
happen to all users?

If you've truly wiped mozilla clean and reinstalled every piece, it's hard to 
see why About Plugins would cause a crash.  I'm not sure, but I still think 
the most likely explanation is that there are some configuration files that 
are corrupted.  Wipe it clean:  apt-get remove --purge everything 
mozilla-related, then

find / -name "moz*" -o -name ".moz*"

and terminate everything you find.  Then try again.  Sorry-- best I can offer 
at this point.

> Aug  3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): starting (version 2.2.1), pid 
30737 user 'ross' 
> Aug  3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at 
position 0
> Aug  3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/ross/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
> Aug  3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at 
position 2
> Aug  3 21:49:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): GConf server is not in use, 
shutting down.

What is gconfd?  Is it related to mozilla?