Public bug reported: I upgraded Breezy to Dapper on my Samsung laptop. Everything works except for the gnome help. Clicking on any help icon fails to launch gnome help. Entering yelp on command line gives message "Could not initialize gecko!"
Any help on what I could do to get yelp working. output of strace yelp 2&> tmp/yelp execve("/usr/bin/yelp", ["yelp", "2"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="pytech2", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x807b000 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f80000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/firefox/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/firefox", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79178, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 79178, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f6c000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\323"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=221844, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f6b000 old_mmap(NULL, 225048, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f34000 old_mmap(0xb7f69000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x34000) = 0xb7f69000 close(3) = 0 ----- snip ------ = 0 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=92146, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f72000 write(1, "Could not initialize gecko!", 27Could not initialize gecko!) = 27 write(10, "\1\v\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\340y\r\10", 16) = 16 close(10) = 0 writev(13, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12 close(13) = 0 writev(11, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12 close(11) = 0 close(9) = 0 close(8) = 0 unlink("/tmp/orbit-pcboey/linc-3946-0-7676e41c99787") = 0 close(12) = 0 munmap(0xb7f72000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(2) = ? ** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Yelp fails to launch - could not initialize gecko! https://launchpad.net/bugs/53504 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs