gnome-help-browser not working for me

[deman win tue nl (Ronald de Man)]

Hello,

For some unknown reason I haven't been able to get gnome-help-browser
to run for a couple of weeks now. It used to work, and as far as I can
tell everything else is working properly. Since I haven't seen
anyone complaining I have to assume that it's a local problem.

Running it from gdb and waiting for a minute before interrupting it,
I get the following.

(gdb) file /usr/local/bin/gnome-help-browser
Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/gnome-help-browser...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gnome-help-browser 
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x404fa03e in select ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x404fa03e in select ()
#1  0x4042b57c in __DTOR_END__ ()
#2  0x40426ecb in giop_main_next_message (blocking=1) at connection.c:983
#3  0x40428202 in giop_recv_reply_buffer_use_multiple (request_ids=0xbfffcdbc, 
    block_for_reply=1) at giop-msg-buffer.c:785
#4  0x4042828e in giop_recv_reply_buffer_use (request_id=1, block_for_reply=1)
    at giop-msg-buffer.c:817
#5  0x403e92ff in CosNaming_NamingContext_resolve (_obj=0x814cabc, 
    n=0xbfffceec, ev=0xbfffd72c) at CosNaming-stubs.c:426
#6  0x403e06ba in gnome_name_service_get () at orbitgtk.c:251
#7  0x804e54e in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff7d4) at gnome-help-browser.c:241
(gdb) 

I'm also getting messages in /var/log/messages. A few days ago it was

Nov 16 12:08:20 localhost orbit-name-server[29509]: ERROR: IDL:omg.org/CosNaming
/NamingContext/NotFound:1.0 thrown.

And now it's

Nov 24 02:19:16 localhost kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from 127.0.0.1 on 127.0.0.1:4113.  Sending cookies.

Hmmm doesn't seem right :)
Ah... killing the currently running orbit-name-server and trying to start
gnome-help-browser again throws me back to the old orbit-name-server error.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ronald