Bug 170931 - gnome-help crashes on startup
Summary: gnome-help crashes on startup
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yelp
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-16 01:53 UTC by Gregory Leblanc
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.15.1-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-05-15 18:54:11 UTC
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2005-10-16 01:53 UTC, Gregory Leblanc 		no flags Details
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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]
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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
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