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Re: yelp misconfiguration?



On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 03:18, Dan Rosen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running a mixed woody/sid system, and I'm having some trouble with
> yelp or scrollkeeper. I'm not sure which, but I believe it's yelp.
> 
> I have all my Gnome2 OMFs in /usr/share/omf, my /etc/scrollkeeper.conf
> setup, and scrollkeeper-update seems to work fine. The XML files generated
> by scrollkeeper are where they should be, in /usr/share/gnome/help.
> 
> However, when I run yelp, none of these show up. All that shows up are
> the usual man and info pages. The "Gnome - Desktop" header has no items
> under it. I ran "yelp-pregenerate -a" to see if it was aware of any XML
> files on the system. It didn't seem to be.

Check /tmp for temporary scrollkeeper files.  If there are four and
owned by someone other than you, that is your problem.  Just delete
them, and things should start to work again.

As to why this happens, I am not sure-- I found this tip after some
intense googling.  :)

Jamie

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