Bug 146010

Summary:	Error Building "Application Manuals" Indexes
Product:	[Applications] khelpcenter	Reporter:	Jacob Dorne <jacobdorne>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	giecrilj, kitchm
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	kcrash file crash file

Description Jacob Dorne 2007-05-27 03:19:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs
OS:                Linux

In the KDE Help Center on the "Search Options" tab I click Build Search Index, I selected "Application Manuals" and then I clicked Build Index, It said Index Creation finished but then I clicked Details and the following text appeared:

INDEXDIR: /home/jacob/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/
FINDCMD: find /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ -name index.docbook
Creating index for 'kde_application_manuals'
htdig failed

So the index creation actually failed.

Comment 1 Stroud Custer 2008-07-21 15:36:46 UTC

Created attachment 26302 [details]
kcrash file

Here's a crash file generated from this bug.

Comment 2 Ian Humphrey 2008-08-18 22:24:27 UTC

Created attachment 26924 [details]
crash file

Comment 3 KitchM 2008-09-21 22:52:44 UTC

I have experienced the same issue many times in the past, and am experiencing it right now on a fresh OS install.

Everything is exactly as related by Jacob.  I get the same message whether I am trying to index the Unix manual pages or a particular program.

I am using Mandriva 2007.0 Spring Free.  I am surprised this has not yet been fixed.  It makes it impossible to use any documentation that was installed initially with the distro.

Is there a patch for it or something?

Thanks.

Comment 4 David Faure 2009-09-17 20:49:05 UTC

SVN commit 1024989 by dfaure:

Show "htdig not found" when htdig is, well, not found. Much better than launching the index creation and then
it appears to have worked except for a small "htdig failed" line in the huge detailed output...
BUG: 146010


 M  +5 -1      kcmhelpcenter.cpp  
 M  +12 -12    searchengine.cpp  
 M  +15 -5     searchhandler.cpp  
 M  +5 -4      searchhandler.h  
 M  +1 -0      searchhandlers/docbook.desktop.cmake  
 M  +1 -0      searchhandlers/htdig.desktop.cmake  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1024989

Comment 5 Christopher Yeleighton 2010-08-10 21:38:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> SVN commit 1024989 by dfaure:
> 
> Show "htdig not found" when htdig is, well, not found. Much better than
> launching the index creation and then
> it appears to have worked except for a small "htdig failed" line in the huge
> detailed output...
> BUG: 146010

This purpose is better served by saying

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

in the first line of /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/khc_docbookdig.pl.  Since that is also the recommended invocation string, I would reopen the bug if I knew how to do it.