On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:22:17PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Two things, however, are annoying enough to make me ask if anyone > has any workarounds ? > > 1. 'help' no longer works in applications. I had this in the past, > and the solution was to add gvfs. Searching google only finds that > recommendation. But, I've *got* gvfs (1.10.1). Looking at the > build log for an older version on my previous system, GConf support > has been entirely removed [ I guess this used to be the important > part with gnome2/GConf2 ] and FTP/HTTP/WebDAV support is now > enabled. > > Curiously, if I open yelp directly, I can get to all of the > installed application help, but 'Help -> Contents' gives me > Could not display help: Operation not supported > This part is now sorted. The idiot in the chair here reworked his scripts and stopped running update-desktop-database (as root). If running that doesn't fix it for anyone, try updating it to 0.19 which has a related fix.
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