yelp crashed with SIGSEGV in free() when printing a document

[komnik]

Binary package hint: yelp

Yelp crashed after clicking menu "File/Print this document" while being at document "Advanced Topics/Installing Server Applications". Before that I clicked "File/Print this Page" then print to ps file and on Preview only the Title of the page was shown.
When launching Yelp from command line I always get:
** (yelp:27939): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (yelp:27939): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

(yelp:27939): Yelp-WARNING **: Yelper initialization failed for 0x91b9a88

Maybe it has something to do with NAUTILUS which constantly is giving kind of "similar" type of error:
(nautilus:2161): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

Forgive me if the two problems are unrelated. I just had to put it on table just in case...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 20 03:56:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5f7f78c <free+92>: lock cmpxchg %ecx,(%esi)
 PC (0x05f7f78c) ok
 source "%ecx" ok
 destination "(%esi)" (0xffffb432) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: yelp
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_free () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strfreev () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV in free()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:23574): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:23603): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:23585): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:23584): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[arky (arky)]

Yelp takes a *really* long time to start up on Karmic machine.

$ valgrind.sh yelp

** (yelp:3408): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (yelp:3408): 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.
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.
OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring.

[Art Culberson (cub-alcenterprise)]

good reporting system, if a bit complicated.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug,

Does this happen in Lucid?

[Jürgen (juergen-hoewener)]

happened in current lucid

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Jürgen thank you for responding to the information request and helping to make Ubuntu better. In Maverick, opened yelp via primary clicking System -> Help and Support -> File -> Print this Page -> printed to .ps file and printed a physical sheet. No problems, no crashing.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy yelp
yelp:
  Installed: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported