help window keeps opening and opening and opening and opening and opening

[Andrew Schulman]

Binary package hint: gnucash

This is one of the most bizarre bugs I've ever seen. In gnucash, when I go to Help > Contents, a help window opens. Then another one opens. And then another one, and another one, and another one... about two per second, faster than I could possibly stop them. My desktop and task bar fill up with them. I try to kill GnuCash by right-clicking on its taskbar icon, but I can't because the icon keeps moving as new help windows open. This continues as long as I let it... there are dozens of help windows, sprouting everywhere. The CPU is churning, the system is starting to swap memory out. Finally I have no choice but to kill my desktop session, mercifully ending the assault.

This is a repeatable problem. When I log back in and try it again, the same thing happens. However, I just logged in as two other users and tried the same thing, and neither of them had this behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnucash 2.2.9-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 5 11:57:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnucash

[John Rose (johnaaronrose)]

Same problem on Desktop 64 bit Lucid.