Bug#995267: devhelp doesn't load the selected content

[crvi c]

> If you run devhelp from a terminal (gnome-terminal or xterm or equivalent)
and click on one of the manuals, what messages does it produce?

Following is the log while devhelp is started.

$ devhelp

(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.637: Failed to read
“/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp2”: Error
opening file
/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp2:
Permission denied
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.637: Failed to read
“/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp2.gz”:
Error opening file
/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp2.gz:
Permission denied
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.637: Failed to read
“/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp”: Error
opening file
/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp:
Permission denied
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.637: Failed to read
“/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp.gz”:
Error opening file
/usr/share/doc/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable.devhelp.gz:
Permission denied
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.803: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk-faq/gtk-faq.devhelp' uses the Devhelp
index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of
Devhelp may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file
should be ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.803: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk-tutorial/gtk-tutorial.devhelp' uses the
Devhelp index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version
of Devhelp may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file
should be ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.
(devhelp:123569): devhelp-WARNING **: 17:36:49.845: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxml2/libxml2.devhelp' uses the Devhelp
index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of
Devhelp may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file
should be ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.

(WebKitWebProcess:2): dbind-WARNING **: 17:36:50.297: AT-SPI: Error
retrieving accessibility bus address:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown


On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 14:29, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 at 23:35:13 +0530, crvi wrote:
> > Opening devhelp succeeds, but the content is not getting loaded in the
> right
> > side pane.
>
> This is working fine for me, with the same package versions and even
> the same locale that you report, so there must be more to it than that -
> perhaps some configuration or system difference that is making this work
> for me but not for you.
>
> Over in Ubuntu, Jeremy sees this problem but Sebastien Bacher does not,
> so again there's probably some system configuration difference that
> triggers this.
>
> If you run devhelp from a terminal (gnome-terminal or xterm or equivalent)
> and click on one of the manuals, what messages does it produce?
>
> Is anything logged in the systemd journal when this happens?
>
>     smcv
>
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