devhelp crashed with SIGSEGV in dh_gecko_utils_search_find()

I confirm this.

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This is the backtrace I got with dbgsym package, by stepping with gdb I noticed that the error is occurring inside Yelper::Init (called by dh_gecko_utils_search_find), eip is zero maybe this is caused by a stack overflow in some xulrrunner function called by Yelper::IInit??

#0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1 0xb7801522 in dh_gecko_utils_search_find (yelper=0x96bd598,
    text=0xb7812db8 "") at dh-gecko-utils.cpp:407
#2 0xb78040f5 in dh_html_search_find (html=0x96bab80, text=0xb7812db8 "")
    at dh-html.c:432
#3 0xb780b7f8 in window_activate_find (action=0x8d3a790, window=0x92de820)
    at dh-window.c:654
#4 0xb791d3e4 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
   from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb790fc53 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0xb79260c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb79277e4 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb7927c66 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0xb7c95a25 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb7c97e74 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb790fc53 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb79260c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb792765b in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0xb7927c66 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0xb7c914b9 in gtk_accel_group_activate () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0xb7c915bd in gtk_accel_groups_activate ()
   from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

I've just got this one too.

I've managed to get a trace, will comment upstream, thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package devhelp - 0.21-0ubuntu1

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devhelp (0.21-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #250290, LP: #257272 and LP: #264847):
    - remove patches 02_gecko_1.9.patch, 05_autotools_update.patch,
      06_fix_ftbfs_in_g_set_error.patch and 70_autoconf.patch
      now applied upstream
      (there is still a small delta with Debian remaining since they moved
      #include <nsStringAPI.h> before #ifdef XPCOM_GLUE in dh-gecko-utils.cpp
      to solve a FTBFS on alpha).
  * Remove cdbs workaround, not needed anymore.
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (No Changes).
  * Remove Build-Depends on -1 revisions.
  * Recommend xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support.

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:40:07 +0200

Version 0.21 work like a charm :) Thanks for the speedy upload