GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124813
yelp crashes on startup
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: Yelp Severity: critical Version: 2.2.0 Synopsis: yelp crashes on startup Bugzilla-Product: Yelp Bugzilla-Component: general BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.2.0.1) Description: Description of Problem: yelp crashes on startup Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Type "yelp" at command line 2. Hit ENTER 3. Observe Actual Results: (yelp:9632): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-running-context.c: line 406 (bonobo_running_context_auto_exit_unref): assertion `object != NULL' failed Yelp-ERROR **: Could not activate Yelp: 'Failed to execute yelp-base: 2 (No such file or directory)' aborting... Expected Results: A window with help. How often does this happen? Every time I've tried. Additional Information: Going to "Help" in Gnome applications (eg: gthumb or Galeon) results in a dialog that says 'Application "gnome-help"... has crashed due to a fatal error. (Aborted)'. I assume this is related. Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/yelp' (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1086876416 (LWP 9632)] 0xffffe002 in ?? ()
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Thread 1 (Thread 1086876416 (LWP 9632))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-10-17 02:35 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, shaunm@gnome.org.
Thanks for the report. This bug has been fixed in the latest release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104609 ***
Whet version is this fixed in? Are RPMs for it available somewhere?
According to the Red Hat bugzilla bug referred to in b.g.o #104609 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82993), the bug was actually in gtkhtml2, and was fixed in gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5 round about last March. The GNOME project doesn't provide RPM's directly (they tend to be too distro specific for generic RPM's to work very well) but rpmfind shows several available (http://www.rpmfind.net/).
Hmmm... that's exactly the version of gtkhtml2 I had installed, so I suspect that this is actually a separate problem. I ended up upgrading gtkhtml2 and yelp (as well as a bunch of other packages) from the NyQuist apt-rpm repository located at http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html That gave me yelp-2.4.1-1 and gtkhtml2-2.4.1-1. Now the problem seems to be fixed, but I'm not sure which of those upgrades was responsible.