> 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 <s...@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 >
