yelp crashed with SIGSEGV in xmlXPathFreeNodeSet()

[Jon Le Mon]

Binary package hint: yelp

Immediately prior to this event, I had selected System > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts
and assigned the "Super" left key to the Home Folder. Unsure if this is relavent or not.

Syytem:
Gutsy 7.10
yelp:
  Installed: 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The help browser crashed while I was reading Keyboard shortcuts (typed from the search box) > Introduction to the desktop.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 29 19:54:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: yelp
StacktraceTop:
 xmlXPathFreeNodeSet () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
 xmlHashFree () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
 xsltFreeDocumentKeys () from /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
 xsltFreeDocuments () from /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
 xsltFreeTransformContext () from /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
Title: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV in xmlXPathFreeNodeSet()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb79286be <xmlXPathFreeNodeSet+62>: cmpl $0x12,0x4(%eax)
 PC (0xb79286be) ok
 source "$0x12" ok
 destination "0x4(%eax)" (0x08e5a8bc) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:xmlXPathFreeNodeSet () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
xmlHashFree () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
xsltFreeDocumentKeys (idoc=0xafd48088) at keys.c:158
xsltFreeDocuments (ctxt=0xafd46f38) at documents.c:263
xsltFreeTransformContext (ctxt=0xafd46f38) at transform.c:597

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for yur report, there's a similar crash at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532657

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

according to upstream, this should be fixed with yelp 2.30.1, setting this as fix committed to reflect that.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has died long ago; no more supported