Bug#403409: yelp: Yelp keeps spawning new windows

[Jonathan Nieder]

Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:

> I have installed the new stable release and it does not have this
> problem anymore.
>
> The Debian on which I experienced the problem was Lenny that was gradually
> upgraded into testing a year and a half ago. On the same system I had some other
> issues with gnome that I did report,
[...]
> I also tried  and failed to reproduce the bug on another machine which was also
> upgraded from Lenny into testing around a year ago. This machine did not have
> any non-Debian software installed.
>
> P.S. Sorry about the delay.

No problem; thanks for looking into it.

So, to summarize:

 - Sven Arvidsson had a problem something like this at the end of
   2006, and wasn't able to reproduce it after a couple of months;
 - Then Eric Cooper experienced the same in autumn of 2007; when he
   checked again in January, 2011, the bug was gone;
 - You experienced the same problem towards the end of 2007, but not
   on all computers with similar versions of yelp, and when you
   installed the new stable release, the bug was gone.

I suspect the underlying problem is poor error handling somewhere ---
yelp is breaking in some transient way and then some component decides
that's a great excuse to spawn a lot of windows.

Of course I'm just making random guesses (i.e., spouting gibberish).
GNOME maintainers: I'm not sure what to do about this bug.  If pressed
for time, I'd consider closing it and adding some hints about what
information would be most useful for tracking it down next time to
yelp's presubj.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Jonathan