Blue help button on panel doing nothing

[prioret]

Release: 9.10 Alpha 2
The help button on the top panel does not open help.
Note, I have firefox running before pressing the help button.
I press the button and I get the spinning wait pointer while on the desktop (not when in the Firefox window)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the description seems to indicate the software is starting and crashing

[prioret (tom-priore)]

I have no indication of a start or crash. When I click on the help button,
nothing of any interest appears to happen at all.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> the description seems to indicate the software is starting and crashing
>
> ** Package changed: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) => yelp (Ubuntu)
>
> --
> Blue help button on panel doing nothing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400874
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “yelp” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Release: 9.10 Alpha 2
> The help button on the top panel does not open help.
> Note, I have firefox running before pressing the help button.
> I press the button and I get the spinning wait pointer while on the desktop
> (not when in the Firefox window)
>

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Is this still an issue for you? does starting "yelp" from the command line works fine?

[Daniel Hollas (danekhollas)]

When I type yelp in the terminal, this is the output:

** (yelp:6117): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (yelp:6117): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.
Segmentation fault

When I click on the help button, help window pop up with loading status,and it crashes after few seconds.
However, when I click on "System->About ubuntu ,everything is fine and i can search throughout help without problems.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Does this still happen in Lucid?