Bug 170931

Summary:

gnome-help crashes on startup

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc>

Component:

yelp

Assignee:

Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>

Status:

CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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high

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medium

Version:

rawhide

CC:

caillon

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Linux

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Fixed In Version:

2.15.1-1

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Bug Fix

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Last Closed:

2006-05-15 18:54:11 UTC

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Description Gregory Leblanc 2005-10-16 01:53:22 UTC

Description of problem:
Gnome-help crashes when trying to open help from GNOME applications, or when
started from the command line

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yelp-2.12.1-1

How reproducible:
always

I'll attach a trace to this bug.

Comment 1 Gregory Leblanc 2005-10-16 01:53:23 UTC

Created attachment 120030 [details]
gdb output

Comment 2 Gregory Leblanc 2005-10-16 03:22:37 UTC

Hrm, ok, looks like this was mozilla related.  I used to have

Sep 28 18:26:51 Updated: mozilla.i386 37:1.7.12-1.5.1

but rawhide now contains 
Oct 15 19:20:41 Installed: mozilla.i386 37:1.7.11-5

Forcing a downgrade seems to have fixed yelp.  I'm not sure if further
investigation is warranted or not.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-10-16 22:30:25 UTC

yelp has to be built against the version of mozilla installed on the machine...
It's a little odd though, that you needed to downgrade.

Chris, did mozilla get downgraded without bumping epoch in rawhide?

Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2006-05-15 18:54:11 UTC

This issue appears to be fixed in the latest rawhide.

yelp-2.15.1-1
mozilla-1.7.13-1.1.fc5