0037244: Clicking 'Help' from Lazarus Help menu causes error and empty help viewer

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0037244	Lazarus	IDE	public	2020-06-24 07:55	2020-07-02 06:10

Reporter	Will B	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Apple Mac mini	OS	macOS 10.15.5
Product Version	2.0.8

Summary	0037244: Clicking 'Help' from Lazarus Help menu causes error and empty help viewer
Description	When clicking the Help menu item from the Lazarus Help menu, an error occurs. A help viewer appears, empty, then an error dialog says: "lhelp Invalid file handle. Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption. Press Abort to kill the program."
Steps To Reproduce	* Have any project open in the IDE * Click the 'Help' menu * Choose the 'Help' menu item from the menu * Empty help viewer and error dialog appear
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Fixed in Revision
LazTarget
Widgetset	Cocoa

Attached Files

Date Modified	Username	Field
2020-06-24 07:55	Will B	New Issue
2020-06-24 07:55	Will B	File Added: lazarus-help-issue.png
2020-07-02 06:10	Dmitry Boyarintsev	Note Added: 0123712

Will B 2020-06-24 07:55 reporter	lazarus-help-issue.png (141,144 bytes) lazarus-help-issue.png (141,144 bytes)

Dmitry Boyarintsev 2020-07-02 06:10 developer ~0123712	that seems to be related to SimpleIPC The error occurs on TSimpleIPCServer.PeekMessage() call