F1 - Help / yelp / ghelp is looping, Ubuntu 11.10

[Wim Jansen]

Help (F1) screen from GNOME Terminal is blank, no documentation to select and when canceling Help another blank sreen pops up within a second and this goes on and on forever, untill a reboot. I use Ubuntu 11.10

Please advice what to do to get Help functioning again,

Thanks inadvance and kind regards,

Wim Jansen

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: yelp 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 11 17:48:48 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: yelp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rifter (rifter0x0000)]

This problem exists in 12.04 "Precise" as well. And no matter how much you kill it, it keeps coming back. The process shows init as its parent:
rifter 5626 1 14 15:05 ? 00:00:48 yelp ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-terminal/C/gnome-terminal.xml

The only way to stop it seems to be to kill the terminal, for some reason. highly frustrating.

I'm using the 64 bit AMD version of Precise, btw.

dpkg -l | grep yelp
ii libyelp0 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 Library for the GNOME help browser
ii yelp 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 Help browser for GNOME
ii yelp-xsl 3.4.1-1 XSL stylesheets for the yelp help browser

uname -a
Linux leviathan 3.2.0-37-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:28:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[rifter (rifter0x0000)]

Also note that there is an upstream bug for this in Debian.:
http://<email address hidden>/msg1088861.html

[rifter (rifter0x0000)]

I stand corrected. It seems that I can't get rid of yelp by killing the terminal after all. If I could figure out what is respawing it I would kill that.

[rifter (rifter0x0000)]

Kill -9 does the trick. I had been using xkill and I guess it does not do that. Destroying or closing the window, or using xkill, results in a respawn, but kill -9 from the terminal gets rid of it.