help browser consistently crashing in Hardy

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 14 19:39:30 UTC 2009


On 02/13/2009 11:54 AM, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In fully updated Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04), help browser keeps crashing.
> 
> I have noticed that the first time it is opened by a user, it goes well.
> But when it is opened by that user a second or subsequent times in the
> same Gnome session, it crashes when the user clicks on any of the
> hyperlinks in the browser.
> 
> Obviously this has caused tremendous embarrassment to me since I have
> been touting Ubuntu Hardy as a robust and reliable operating system. The
> system is being used by new users and clearly it doesn't help that the
> help browser itself is crashing  :(
> 
> Anybody else having this problem? This is on an AMD 64 system.
> 
> Thanks.

Same problem here on 32bit 8.04.2. Unfortunately:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp
will result in responses to bugs like this from 223918:

"Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find."

Note that in About Help it shows a nonexistent package name:
Help 2.22.1
It's actually Yelp 2.22.1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=yelp
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-updates/yelp





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