GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 352467
yelp crashed when using non-Beagle backend to search
Last modified: 2006-08-28 13:56:13 UTC
Yelp often crashes if beagle isn't installed, especially searching something completed, like Unicode strings. $ yelp (yelp:6060): Yelp-WARNING **: beagled not running, using basic search support. grep: Invalid back reference
Thanks for the bug report. <aside> We don't actually use grep for searching. For normal documents, we use our own XML search methods. For man pages, we use the program 'apropos' and for info pages we search using the command 'info --apropos'. </aside> To help us fix the problem, it'd be great if you could provide some (or 1) examples of search terms that crash yelp. Also, as yelp is crashing, a stack-trace would be helpful. Thanks.
Created attachment 71564 [details] yelp.crash.backtrace Backtrace bug-buddy provided. I'm searching "Hello" at the time.
Thanks. The crash is happening when trying to parse man page results. Could you please try running the following from a command line and pasting the output: apropos Hello; echo $? (including the exit number provided by 'echo $?') where you can replace Hello with any search term that causes yelp to crash. Thanks
$ apropos Hello; echo $? Hello: nothing appropriate 0
Hi, This bug has already been reported into bugzilla. It should be fixed in CVS and will make its way into 2.16 final. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 347467 ***