Re: Devhelp assistant blank window

[Antenore Gatta <antenore simbiosi org>]

Sorry, I've found myself.

I was passing, through vim, function that do not exists to devhelp, so
I was seeing an empty window (that's intended I guess).



On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:30:55 +0100
Antenore Gatta <antenore simbiosi org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I cannot determine if this is a bug in the devhelp assistant or if
> it's my setup/environment.
>
> When I run:
>
>    devhelp -a "whatever-function"
>
> Instead of having the window with the function description, I've an
> empty white page.
>
> This was happening from time to time till few weeks ago, but killing
> the window and relaunching it, was "fixing" the problem, lately I
> cannot use "devhelp -a" anymore.
>
> How can I debug this?
>
> Enclosed you can find a log of the command:
>
> GDK_DEBUG=all devhelp -a gprint 2> devhelp.log
>
> Follows some other info about my system
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux Ade 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 20 22:06:45 UTC
> 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> $ sudo lshw -C video
>   *-display
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
> Graphics Controller
>        vendor: Intel Corporation
>        physical id: 2
>        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
>        version: 09
>        width: 64 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
>        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
>        resources: irq:28 memory:f0000000-f03fffff
> memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
>
>
> $ pacman -Q | grep -E -e devhelp -e '^gtk' -e 'gdk' -e '-glib'
> appstream-glib 0.7.14-1
> dbus-glib 0.110-1
> devhelp 3.30.1-1
> gdk-pixbuf2 2.38.0-1
> geocode-glib 3.26.0-1
> gtk-doc 1.29-1
> gtk-engine-murrine 0.98.2-3
> gtk-engines 2.21.0-3
> gtk-sharp-2 2.12.45-1
> gtk-update-icon-cache 3.24.1+8+g220f77d8c1-1
> gtk-vnc 0.9.0-1
> gtk-xfce-engine 2.10.1-2
> gtk2 2.24.32-1
> gtk2-perl 1.24992-2
> gtk3 3.24.1+8+g220f77d8c1-1
> gtkglext 1.2.0-11
> gtkimageview 1.6.4-5
> gtkmm 2.24.5-2
> gtkmm3 3.24.0-1
> gtksourceview2 2.10.5-4
> gtksourceview3 3.24.9-2
> gtksourceview4 4.0.3-1
> gtkspell 2.0.16-7
> gtkspell3 3.0.9-3
> json-glib 1.4.4-1
> lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 2.38.0-1
> lib32-glib-networking 2.58.0-1
> lib32-glib2 2.58.1-1
> lib32-glibc 2.28-5
> lib32-json-glib 1.4.4-1
> libaccounts-glib 1.24-1
> libdbusmenu-glib 16.04.0-2
> libgit2-glib 0.27.7-1
> libmm-glib 1.8.2-1
> libnm-glib 1.14.5dev+17+gba83251bb-1
> libpackagekit-glib 1.1.11-1
> libvirt-glib 1.0.0-1
> poppler-glib 0.71.0-1
> telepathy-glib 0.24.1-2