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Help Application fails to start on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Troubleshooting


Problem

The Help application does not start when executed from a prompt or from the Help -> Help Contents menu item in IBM Rational Rhapsody. A blank dialog is displayed.

Symptom

In addition to the blank dialog, one of the following errors may appear in the log (<user home>/rcphelp/workspace/.metadata/.log):

  • org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]
  • org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME='/usr/lib/mozilla'] (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-mozilla-gtk-3452 or swt-mozilla-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file)

[{"Product":{"code":"SSB2MU","label":"IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Documentation","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"7.5.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB77","label":"Automation Platform"}}]

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 May 2022

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swg21422315