Yelp fails to launch - could not initialize gecko!

[Pak Cheong Boey]

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

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                           = 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) = ?

[Pak Cheong Boey (pcboey)]

I finally found a solution to the problem. By renaming /usr/lib/firefox/components/compreg.dat yelp is working now. I don't understand why. Perhaps someone who knows could enlighten us.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.