#1014189 devhelp: can't launch DevHelp GUI

Package:
devhelp
Source:
devhelp
Description:
GNOME developers help program
Submitter:
Tim McConnell
Date:
2022-07-01 19:57:05 UTC
Severity:
grave
#1014189#5
Date:
2022-07-01 18:08:19 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

What led up to the situation?Attempt to launch Dev Help from Icon or via
command line.

What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?Attempt
to use the program: Ineffective it fails.

What was the outcome of this action?From Icon nothing happened and program
fails to launch. typing devhelp in command line gives this:
devhelp

(devhelp:735030): devhelp-WARNING **: 12:46:14.787: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk-faq/gtk-faq.devhelp' uses the Devhelp index
file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of Devhelp may
remove the support for the format version 1. The index file should be ported to
the Devhelp index file format version 2.

(devhelp:735030): devhelp-WARNING **: 12:46:14.811: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk-tutorial/gtk-tutorial.devhelp' uses the
Devhelp index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of
Devhelp may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file should
be ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.

(devhelp:735030): devhelp-WARNING **: 12:46:14.839: The file
'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtkglext/gtkglext.devhelp.gz' uses the Devhelp
index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of Devhelp
may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file should be
ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.

(devhelp:735030): devhelp-WARNING **: 12:46:15.306: The file
'file:///usr/share/devhelp/books/python3.10/python3.10.devhelp.gz' uses the
Devhelp index file format version 1, which is deprecated. A future version of
Devhelp may remove the support for the format version 1. The index file should
be ported to the Devhelp index file format version 2.
bwrap: Creating new namespace failed: No space left on device
 and still doesn't launch.

What outcome did you expect instead? To be able to use the program.

#1014189#10
Date:
2022-07-01 19:53:11 UTC
From:
To:
This looks like the same root cause as #1014188. devhelp uses WebKitGTK,
which requires a system configuration in which bubblewrap works: see
/usr/share/doc/bubblewrap/README.Debian.gz for details.
In your case it seems that /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces is set to 0,
which prevents namespace-based sandboxing from working.

    smcv