Same here, only just changed ubuntu session to gnome classic with gnome-
panel. Placed Force Quit on the panel and tried to kill a working app
(in my case Firefox), mouse arrow kept moving, other than that, system
completely froze, couldn't do anything other than Alt/SysRq REISUB.
Ubuntu 12.04
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>From the link provided by Shaun, i see that this is known for a long
time.
Nobody has solved it yet, but there is a way to get your system back without
having to reboot: write script 'killall yelp' (killall gnome-help as suggested
in the links doesn't work for me), create a launcher and add the
Thank you for your information.
Maybe this gets me somewhere.
Tried installing 'docbook (which wasn't installed on my system)', no avail
Mallard seems not to be a package that can be (re)installed
Already tried reinstalling yelp earlier, also no avail
It confuses me that the command 'yelp ghelp:
Thx for your quick answer and your efforts to help with this.
interestingly, this is what happens when i run yelp ghelp:gnome-
terminal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afERf2R3nE4
So no luck...
The video doesn't show, but the same behaviour is there using ambiance
Gtk and window theme
I don't
Public bug reported:
When opened from certain applications (eg grsync and terminal) but not others
(eg nautilus and gedit), the yelp window stays empty, steals focus (forces
itself on forground) and cannot be force killed.
The system becomes unusable, although everything seems to continue workin
