(minor) issues after upgrading to 2.20

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 7 16:17:57 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 16:11 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:28 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 
> > >> There is weird problem with yelp, I keep get when I go to System > Help
> > >> and I get dialog:
> > >>
> > >> ===========================================
> > >> Page not found
> > >>
> > >> The requested page was not found in the TOC.
> > >> ===========================================
> > >>
> > >> If I run gedit and go to Help -> Contents and I get this:
> > >>
> > >> ===========================================
> > >> Page not found
> > >>
> > >> The requested page was not found in the document
> > >> /usr/local/share/gnome/help/gedit/C/gedit.xml.
> > >> ===========================================
> > >>
> > >> But strange, if I click on 'ok' button and gedit manual is right there.
> > >> I am able to read gedit manual stuff with no problem.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Are you running Yelp over VNC or the like?
> > 
> > Nope, just run normal desktop by via GDM (enable_gnome="YES") and it was a  
> > clean installation of GNOME 2.20. I noticed that in /var/log/messages has:
> > 
> 
> FWIW, that's what I saw at first.  Now though it loads.  I've seen this
> frequently on 2.20 -- that the behavior is not the same from one time to
> another.  Any idea why?  Mine is an upgrade from 2.18, and I did not
> change any of the dot files.  Should I?

My test system is an i386 -CURRENT machine that I just keep upgrading.
I don't see any problems with finding help or yelp crashing on exit.  I
didn't really modify any of the dot files, either.

> 
> Yelp still crashes on exit.  It also loads help for Gnome 2.14 from the
> System Panel.

The 2.14 links are expected as those documents have not been updated
since then.

> 
> I just tried it again, and it is back to the behavior Mezz described.
> Very Odd.  (And yes, I checked the memory and it is fine.)

Without a backtrace with full debugging symbols, I can't do much.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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