Gnome terminal, can't display Help

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:01:40PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:00 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > In Fedora 7 when I click on 'Help' in the gnome-terminal menu I now
> > get a message saying:-
> > 
> >     There was an error displaying help: There was an error launching
> >     the default action command associated with this location.
> >     
> > It used to work so what have I screwed up? 
> > 
> > FWIW I wanted Help because the URL launching action isn't working
> > either, I suspect this could well be the same or similar issue.
> > 
> > It's a pity there isn't an ordinary man page for gnome-terminal, less
> > likely to get lost.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Green
> > 
> I assume you get the same behavior from F1.
> 
> It looks like the gnome-terminal help is in:
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-terminal
> 
> Are those still on your machine?

Yes.

It turned out that [re]installing yelp fixed the problem, what I can't
understand is why it used to work and then stopped working until yelp
was installed.  I can't think of anything I've done which would stop
or remove yelp.

-- 
Chris Green