[MacPorts] #20210: After a lengthy upgrade of an outdated macports installation, firefox-x11 builds but fails to run with dbus errors. [ was firefox, orbit2, policykit and many others ] (was: Policykit fails to configure due to outdated intltool port [ was firefox, orbit2, policykit ])

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#20210: After a lengthy upgrade of an  outdated macports installation, firefox-x11
builds but fails to run with dbus errors.  [ was firefox, orbit2, policykit
and many others ]
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 Reporter:  aszy@…        |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal        |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports         |     Version:  1.7.1                                
 Keywords:  firefox-x11   |        Port:  dbus                                 
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Changes (by devans@…):

 * cc: mcalhoun@… (added)
  * keywords:  intltool => firefox-x11
  * port:  policykit => dbus


Comment:

 Yes, all this looks correct except for the end result.  On my system
 (10.4.11 ppc, XCode 2.5), when I run firefox
 this is what I get
 {{{
 devans% firefox
 Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
 }}}

 and firefox works as expected.

 As I mentioned before, the
 {{{
 Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
 }}}

 warning error is to be expect with the current X11 installation and is not
 harmful.  You'll see this with almost
 any X11 application.

 The rest of the messages are symptomatic of not being able to communicate
 with dbus and are another thing all
 together.  I can't reproduce the problem here.

 You should also see something like
 {{{
 devans% ps ax | grep dbus
   256  ??  Ss     0:00.08 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session
 }}}

 So I'm at the end of my "wisdom" now.  Am copying the maintainer of dbus
 as he, hopefully, knows more
 about the situation at hand.

 Also updating the summary to reflect the current state of affairs

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20210#comment:15>
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