gnome-help crashes reproduciably on on startup.

[Sivan Greenberg]

this is the bt:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1226561856 (LWP 18455)]
0x0805dd11 in gecko_prefs_set_string (key=0x8076c73 "font.size.unit",
value=0x8076c70 "pt") at yelp-gecko-utils.cpp:78
78 prefService->GetBranch ("", getter_AddRefs (pref));
Current language: auto; currently c++
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread -1226561856 (LWP 18455)):
#0 0x0805dd11 in gecko_prefs_set_string (key=0x8076c73 "font.size.unit",
value=0x8076c70 "pt") at yelp-gecko-utils.cpp:78
#1 0x0805dfc8 in yelp_gecko_set_font (font_type=YELP_FONT_VARIABLE,
fontname=0x8182458 "Sans 10") at yelp-gecko-utils.cpp:144
#2 0x0805ebe0 in html_set_fonts () at yelp-html.cpp:414
#3 0x0805ed7e in html_init (html=0x8132b00) at yelp-html.cpp:142
#4 0xb74ee6cf in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb74d3de2 in g_object_thaw_notify () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0xb74d4486 in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb74d504d in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb74d51f6 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0x0805e853 in yelp_html_new () at yelp-html.cpp:272
#10 0x08067992 in window_populate (window=0x81214c8) at yelp-window.c:1116
#11 0x08066a28 in yelp_window_new (doc_tree=0x808b218, index=0x0) at
yelp-window.c:726
#12 0x08059ac5 in yelp_base_new_window (base=0x80e1508, uri=0x80bcf60 "") at
yelp-base.c:200
#13 0x08059662 in impl_Yelp_newWindow (servant=0x80e151c, url=0x80bcf60 "",
ev=0xbfe7c454) at yelp-base.c:70
#14 0x080759f3 in _ORBIT_skel_small_GNOME_Yelp_newWindow (_o_servant=0x80e151c,
_o_retval=0x0, _o_args=0xbfe7c424, _o_ctx=0x0,
    _o_ev=0xbfe7c454, _impl_newWindow=0x8059628 <impl_Yelp_newWindow>) at
GNOME_Yelp-common.c:16
#15 0xb752f6a5 in ORBit_c_stub_invoke () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
#16 0x0807568b in GNOME_Yelp_newWindow (_obj=0x811c5e0, url=0x80bcf60 "",
ev=0xbfe7c454) at GNOME_Yelp-stubs.c:12
#17 0x0806d1a5 in main_open_new_window (yelp_base=0x811c5e0, url=0x80bcf60 "")
at yelp-main.c:145
#18 0x0806d28c in main_idle_start (url=0x80bcf60 "") at yelp-main.c:186
#19 0xb745f734 in g_child_watch_add () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0xb745d4e7 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0xb74604d6 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0xb74607f8 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#23 0xb75b5510 in bonobo_main () from /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0
#24 0x0806d841 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfe7c6d4) at yelp-main.c:387

[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

pkg versions and dependencies:

ii yelp 2.13.2-0ubuntu3 Help browser for
GNOME 2

[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

this is known upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164689 . Seb
how can I make a bug status 'UPSTREAM' ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

duplicate of #20183

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30791.