Bug#443770: gnome-control-center: Help not working for keyboard settings

Ian McDonald ian.mcdonald at jandi.co.nz
Sun Sep 23 22:25:47 UTC 2007


Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.20.0-1
Severity: normal


I went into System, Preferences, Keyboard (which starts
gnome-keyboard-properties) and went into Layout Options and clicked on
Help.

This fires off gnome-help with the following command:
gnome-help
 ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide/C/user-guide.xml?goscustperiph-2

When done from the application gnome-help just hangs. If done from the
command prompt I get the following message in a dialog box labelled
"Could not load section" "The section ¿goscustperiph-2¿ does not exist
in this document. If you were directed to this section from a Help
button in an application, please report this to the maintainers of that
application."

and also this at the command prompt:
"Yelp-ERROR **: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection
was broken.

aborting...
Aborted"

My version of yelp is 2.18.1-1 - I don't know if the help files are
stored with this or the package. Either way if older version doesn't
work there should be a dependency.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc3faster (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  capplets-data       1:2.20.0-1           configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils  0.12-1               Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-desktop-data  2.20.0-2             Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-icon-theme    2.20.0-1             GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-menus         2.20.0-2             an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.19-3             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.20.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0        2.20.0-1             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0      2.20.0-1             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6               2.6.1-5              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.4.10-1             The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.1.1-3              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.74-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9       1.10.3-1             Client library for evolution addre
ii  libesd0             0.2.36-3             Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1      2.4.2-1.2            generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.5-1+b1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4         2.20.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.14.1-3             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2  2.20.0-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2      2.20.0-2             an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome-window-set 1:2.20.0-1           Utility library for getting window
ii  libgnome2-0         2.20.0-1             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.20.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomekbd1        2.20.0-1             GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui1      2.20.0-1             User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgnomeui-0        2.20.0-1             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0      1:2.20.0-1           GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugin 0.10.14-4            GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0  0.10.14-2            Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.12.0-2             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1             0.5.9.1-5            Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6             2:1.0.4-1            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0        1:2.20.0-1           library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libnautilus-extensi 2.18.3-3             libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2           1:2.14.7-0.1         libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0  2.18.3-2             library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.18.2-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.15~beta5-2       PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0            1.10-3               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libslab0            0.9.8.svn.20070430-1 beautification app library file
ii  libsm6              2:1.0.3-1+b1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notifica 0.9-1                library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6            2:1.0.3-7            X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.3.2-1+b1         X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1         1:1.1.9-1            X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.1-3            X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6            1:1.0.3-2            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3          1:4.0.3-2            X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2             2.1.12-2             FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6              2:1.1.3-1            X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1        1:1.0.2-1            X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier11       3.3-1                X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2             2.6.30.dfsg-2        GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2          2:1.2.2-1            X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.4-1            X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1             1:1.1.2-1            X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1       1:1.0.1-2            X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-7    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  evolution-data-server         1.10.3-1   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-session                 2.20.0-1   The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-user-guide              2.20.0-1   GNOME user's guide

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