Bug 132218

Summary: Yelp menu incomplete (scrollkeeper?)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Eisenstein <deisenst>
Component: yelpAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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URL: http://members.gtw.net/~deisenst/yelp/Yelp_bug.html
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Description David Eisenstein 2004-09-09 22:42:43 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; de-DE; rv:1.4.1)
Gecko/20031030

Description of problem:
The problem with not getting a full menu when running "help" or "yelp" is
with the scrollkeeper program, but it affects yelp users.  One of the
scrollkeeper programs is responsible for creating a temporary file with a
list of contents -- /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-cl .  It uses a set of 5
temporary files, named "/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.0"
"/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.1" ...  "/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.4",
one for
each time this program is called.

These files get cycled through.  When it's time to use a file that's owned
by another user, this program fails.

For example, lets say on a freshly-installed system, dave uses yelp twice.
Then bill gets on and uses yelp three more times.  The temporary files
used
by the scrollkeeper-get-cl program would then look like this:

-rwxr--r--    1 dave     dave        43798 Sep  7 18:28
/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.0
-rwxr--r--    1 dave     dave        43798 Sep  7 18:29
/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.1
-rwxr--r--    1 bill     bill        43798 Sep  7 18:30
/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.2
-rwxr--r--    1 bill     bill        43798 Sep  7 18:31
/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.3
-rwxr--r--    1 bill     bill        43798 Sep  7 18:33
/tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.4

When bill goes to use yelp yet one more time, the full menu will not
appear, because bill cannot delete and re-use the
"scrollkeeper-tempfile.0"
file.  Every time thereafter that bill goes to use yelp, it will fail to
show a full content menu, unless dave uses it twice.  User sue, tom, and
frank may was well forget being able to see a full menu.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yelp-2.4.0-1  scrollkeeper-0.3.12-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(see description)    

Actual Results:  (See description and the images 
at <http://members.gtw.net/~deisenst/yelp/Yelp_bug.html>.)

Expected Results:  (See description and the images 
at <http://members.gtw.net/~deisenst/yelp/Yelp_bug.html>.)

Additional info:
Comment 1 David Eisenstein 2004-12-08 16:02:39 UTC 
Okay, according to gnome.org's Bugzilla, # 113151 at
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113151

this bug was fixed with scrollkeeper-0.3.14.  This should not be a
problem with FC2 or FC3.  More about this problem is documented in
the Scrollkeeper website in their bug-tracking system, issue #
798614, at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=798614&group_id=11543&atid=111543

I am closing this, as hopefully a FC1 user can just download the
FC2 scrollkeeper-0.3.14-2.1.src.rpm or .i386.rpm and get the problem
fixed.