yelp fails to initialise gecko

[Tan Kah Ping]

Binary package hint: yelp

I'm filing this bug as per request by Didier Roche. Yelp gives a "Could not initialise gecko!" error in terminal when I try to run it. This all came about as I was trying to run the quickly tutorial. Please refer to bug #607830 for that

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: yelp 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 8861f1385669c9b7871898f4d29776e4
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
Date: Thu Jul 22 19:31:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp

[mario (xmilky)]

I have the same problem for a couple of days. Reinstalling yelp or xulrunner-1.9.2 or -1.9.3-dbg didn't help. Also there is no "compreg.dat" in /usr/lib/xulrunner*, which is good, as this was mentioned as cause in previous bug reports for yelps very helpful error message.

Haven't diagnosed the issue, but I have my suspicion that it stopped working ca. three days ago. From my /var/cache/apt/:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207154 2010-07-22 19:05 firefox-branding_3.6.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12527134 2010-07-22 19:05 firefox_3.6.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80404 2010-07-22 19:05 firefox-gnome-support_3.6.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10384748 2010-07-22 19:05 xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64611760 2010-07-22 19:05 xulrunner-1.9.2-dbg_1.9.2.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb

[mario (xmilky)]

Todays update (xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb) didn't help.

[Tan Kah Ping (kahping)]

A recent update seems to have fixed this for me

[milki (xmilky+launchpad)]

I now believe this bug was caused by a conflict with a non-standard package. I had the Firefox-4-daily ppa and FF4 installed, which brought it's own xulrunner (-2.0 and -1.9.3 transitional), which mostly likely have caused this. Just uninstalled both, and gecko-based yelp started working again. -> CLOSE

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the bug then, thanks.