Tutorial and Concepts Guide closes

[Frank Saporito, M.D.]

On 03/30/2015 08:12 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Sunday 29 March 2015 22:20:31 Frank Saporito, M.D. wrote:
>> David and Colin,
>>
>> Thank you for responding to my inquiry and your thoughts.  The Help
>> menu items Tutorial and Concepts Guide seems to open up the links
>> fine.  But will close after about 10 seconds.
>>
>> I have been able to figure out that Yelp (the Gnome help viewer) is
>> being killed by signal 11 (SIGSEV). (whatever that means)
>>
>> There are some similar bug reports out there for this issue.
>>
>> I will keep plugging away.  Any other ideas?
>>
> Hi Frank,
>
> I am running on Fedora 20, using yelp-3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64. Neither the
> guide nor the manual crash when I open them from within GnuCash.
>
> This if of course not on CentOS, but both distributions are similar
> (particularly as GnuCash Centos and Fedora packages are built by the
> same maintainer).
>
> GnuCash uses the default gnome system calls to launch yelp. There is
> nothing fancy about that call and yelp runs completely independently
> from GnuCash once called.
>
> In addition if yelp starts fine and crashes shortly afterwards, that
> sounds like a bug in yelp rather than GnuCash.
>
> If it is something in our guide or manual that triggers the crash, I'd
> love to hear about it of course. But even in that case the bug is in
> yelp which should not crash when opening a document, malformed or not.
>
> On the other hand I'm not sure where to send you to report this bug. I
> believe yelp is part of the Centos release so logically it should be
> reported there. My fear is however that the Centos maintainers will tell
> you gnucash is part of EPEL so go complain there...
>
> A few additional tests you could run that may give you more hints to
> what goes wrong:
>
>  From a command line run
> yelp ghelp:gnucash-help
> or
> yelp ghelp:gnucash-guide
>
> That is exactly what gnucash does as well.
> Do these crash also ?
> Is there some crash information on the command line ?
> Does this trigger an abrt crash report ? Does that contain anything
> useful ?
>
> Geert
Thanks Geert,

The commands opened yelp but could not load the page.

the command line returned several lines; here are the first two.

(yelp:17603): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tool_button_new: assertion 
`icon_widget == NULL || GTK_IS_MISC (icon_widget)' failed

(yelp:17603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

I will try and work with this some more later today or this week.  I 
think you are on to something.  I may try reinstalling gnucash.

thanks
frank