manpage not found when package was installed after yelp was started

[timobaumann]

Binary package hint: yelp

System release:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

Package version:
2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3

steps to reproduce:

(1): open yelp, type "man mp3info" (or oggenc, or whatever other program that is not installed). you will get an error message (saying that the URI is invalid, which is a different bug)
(2): do not close yelp. Install the package with apt-get or Synaptic
(3): try "man mp3info" on the command line; works as expected
(4): retype your search request in yelp; you still get the error message

expected behaviour:

yelp should find man-pages regardless of when (relative to yelp's startup) they were installed. This could be solved by reloading the manpage database before giving up on a manpage search.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 2 21:03:35 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/bin/
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Does this happen in Lucid?

[timobaumann (timobaumann)]

Yes, it happens in Lucid. It is very likely to also happen in Maverick, though I haven't updated yet.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Still happens in Ubuntu Natty alpha 1.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Upstream fixed version has landed in Ubuntu