diff -up yelp-2.20.0/src/yelp-search-parser.c.search-crash yelp-2.20.0/src/yelp-search-parser.c
--- yelp-2.20.0/src/yelp-search-parser.c.search-crash	2007-09-17 16:49:09.000000000 -0400
+++ yelp-2.20.0/src/yelp-search-parser.c	2007-11-05 18:13:09.000000000 -0500
@@ -1074,8 +1074,11 @@ slow_search_process (RrnReg *reg, Search
 
     ptr = g_strrstr (container->base_filename, "/");
     
-    path = g_strndup (container->base_filename, 
-		      ptr - container->base_filename);
+    if (ptr)
+        path = g_strndup (container->base_filename, 
+			  ptr - container->base_filename);
+    else
+	path = g_strdup (container->base_filename);
     
     /* BEGIN HTML special block */
     if (reg->type && (g_str_equal (reg->type, "text/html") ||