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)

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