Bug#461790: iceape-browser: "the associated helper application does not exist"
Frédéric Brière
fbriere at fbriere.net
Sun Jan 20 20:02:00 UTC 2008
Package: iceape-browser
Version: 1.1.7-1
Severity: normal
There seems to be a race condition on documents that are to be handled
by an external application. Often, Iceape will throw the following
error message:
$foo could not be opened, because the associated helper application
does not exist. Change the association in your preferences.
There does not appear to be any pattern to it; clicking on the same PDF
link may launch xpdf, say, 7 times out of 10. This occurs whether the
file is cached or not, remote or local.
I didn't see anything obvious with strace, and I certainly wouldn't know
what to look for with gdb. So, let me know if I can do anything to
help.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (1001, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceape-browser depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0~1.9b1-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-0d 3.12.0~1.9b1-2 Transition package for Network Sec
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-10 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages iceape-browser recommends:
pn iceape-gnome-support <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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