Bug#345563: yelp: No help index available in gnome (debian etch)

[Daniel R.]

Package: yelp
Version: 2.10.0-3
Followup-For: Bug #345563


After performing dist-upgrade from sarge to etch, I have found that the main
"Help" option in Gnome desktop menu renders a blank page (only an icon
and no help index).

I have tried to run yelp or gnome-help from the console, but it gives
the following text error (not visible -obviously- if you click directly
on the desktop "Help" button):


I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/home/daniel/.gnome2/yelp-bookmarks.xbel"
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b868 ***
I/O warning : failed to load external entity ""


I have checked my .gnome2 folder and that file "yelp-bookmarks.xbel" is
missing. 

I have created a new test user, entered corresponding new session, but problem is the same, and file above is also missing (gnome does not create it, nor it is in /etc/skel). Therefore I don't think this problem is due to migration from sarge to etch, it may happen in new debian etch systems as well.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages yelp depends on:
ii  docbook-xml                   4.4-4      standard XML documentation system,
ii  gconf2                        2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-doc-utils               0.5.2-1    a collection of documentation util
ii  libbonobo2-0                  2.10.1-1   Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbz2-1.0                    1.0.2-11   high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-5  GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.5.1-2  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.10.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.10.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0                2.10.1-5   The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.8.9-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxml2                       2.6.22-2   GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                    1.1.15-2   XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  mozilla-browser               2:1.7.12-1 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  xml-core                      0.09       XML infrastructure and XML catalog
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-9  compression library - runtime

yelp recommends no packages.

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