Bug 46105

Summary:	yelp display blank on amd64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	larry schuler <larryas2>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description larry schuler 2004-03-29 05:52:12 UTC

Using yelp 2.4.2 (and 2.4.0) on an amd64. When trying to display help contents, 
the "Loading..." message is displayed, but nothing is ever displayed.

I also get this error in /var/log/messages:

yelp-db2html[29519] general protection rip:2a95920680 rsp:7fbffff0f0 error:0 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-29 07:23:58 UTC

don't assign bugs yourself if you don't know where they should go, let the wranglers handle them.

Comment 2 Phillip L 2004-04-01 09:18:49 UTC

I've been unable to reproduce this on my system, compiled in 64bit mode.  yelp works as expected.  Also confirmed operational by several other users.

amd64 root # file /usr/libexec/yelp-db2html
/usr/libexec/yelp-db2html: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

For reference, make.conf =

CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="acpi cjk cups dga dvd dvdr fbcon gphoto2 gstreamer innodb ipv6 java \
     mad multilib nogcj oav odbc samba sasl scanner slp theora usb vscan \
     --cups java --qt"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Comment 3 larry schuler 2004-04-01 09:46:03 UTC

before I posted this bug, I asked the question to the amd64 mailing list, and at least two others were having similair problems. I just tried to rebuild it with -O2 CFLAGS, but that didn't help. 

Maybe it is a 2.6.x kernel prob, my yelp-db2html is:

/usr/libexec/yelp-db2html: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Comment 4 larry schuler 2004-04-14 10:08:58 UTC

I can't figure out why, but this is now working ok.

I have updated a few packages on my system, perhaps an updated library has fixed this. (I do notice strange highlighting in the windowing system on other apps though, so perhaps I just have a funky color problem.) 

This bug can probably be closed.

Comment 5 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-15 01:37:17 UTC

re-open this bug if problems persist, i guess