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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:31:45
Message-Id: 20110517202607.GA2992@acm.acm
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get help in Gnome - Silly error message by walt
1 Hi, Walt.
2
3 On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:07:38AM -0700, walt wrote:
4 > On 05/16/2011 02:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
5 > > Hi, Gentoo.
6
7 > > Would somebody please help me.
8
9 > > In every program in Gnome, there is a help menu. When I click on any of
10 > > them, I get the wierd error message:
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12 > > Couldn't display help
13 > > The specified location is not supported
14
15 > > Does this just mean "couldn't find file" or does it have some deeper
16 > > meaning? More to the point, what do I have to do to fix this problem?
17
18 > What happens when you run yelp from a command prompt?
19
20 Yelp appears to start OK. In the tty appear 8 error messages like:
21
22 (yelp:2967): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tool_button_new: assertion
23 `icon_widget == NULL || GTK_IS_MISC (icon_widget)' failed
24
25 After a bit more clicking, to try to get to an Info page, yelp crashes
26 (and exits) with:
27
28 Yelp:ERROR:yelp-document.c:275:yelp_document_cancel_page: assertion
29 failed: (document != NULL && YELP_IS_DOCUMENT (document))
30
31 > I'm having gnome help problems too, but a different problem. Yelp just
32 > prints "can't initialize gecko" and quits. Seems to be a problem with
33 > xulrunner and I'm trying to track it down now.
34
35 --
36 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).