help browser consistently crashing in Hardy

[James Takac]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 05:39:30 NoOp wrote:
> 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


Hi

It's working fine on this lap top. Just a thought but do you have visual 
effects enabled? If so try disabling them and see if it still crashes

James