Re: yelp won't start

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 14:52 +0100, André Davidson wrote:
> Hello,
> yelp doesn't start (almost freshly installed Fedora 14.) This is the output:
> > [adav localhost ~]$ yelp
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 549, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 532, in main
> >     known_paths = addsitepackages(known_paths)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 311, in addsitepackages
> >     addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 188, in addsitedir
> >     addpackage(sitedir, name, known_paths)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 158, in addpackage
> >     exec line
> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/abrt_exception_handler.py", 
> > line 28, in <module>
> >     import subprocess
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 428, in <module>
> >     import select
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/selectmodule.so: undefined 
> > symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct
> I thought I'd just let you know. Sorry if this doesn't belong here, I 
> looked for a place to report bugs (I assume this is one) at 
> live.gnome.org, but... well, the site messy and confusing so I wrote here.

Hi André,

This is probably caused by xulrunner incompatibilities between
Yelp and xulrunner-python. See bug #635969 for some details:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635969

The only workaround I know of is to uninstall xulrunner-python.

--
Shaun