Started even from command line, it simply crashes, giving no error messages. A dialog box in gnome simply appears, saying the application just made a segfault, before any window appeared. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Alt+F2 2. "devhelp" 3. Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r2)================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.20/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.19/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd encode esd faad fbcon flac foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libgda libwww linguas_fr mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype v4l video_cards_rage128 wmf wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Does this still happen if you use sane CFLAGS?
I can't reproduce this segfault. Please provide a backtrace so we can have a better idea on what's going on. Also, you forgot to mention which version of devhelp you have installed.
No further information..
In fact this bug is not a devhelp bug : after having uninstalled ebook-zvt, the problem was solved.