Evince 'Document Viewer' Won't Open

[jdorenbush]

As the title says, Evince will not open. Initially I was having problems with Evince not retaining settings (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lu...ce/+bug/503372), but now it just won't open. I tried a reinstall of the software and that didn't fix it.

Thoughts?

[gigaSproule]

I just had this issue. I tried running it from terminal, but it said that some file did not exist, so I just removed the package and reinstalled it. It says that it will uninstall ubuntu-desktop as well, so just accept it.

sudo apt-get remove evince
sudo apt-get install evince
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[jdorenbush]

Yeah, I saw that message too. I wasn't sure if removing Ubuntu-Desktop would cause problems. I was a little worried to proceed.

I ended up installing Adobe Reader, which appears to be working okay. I'm not sure if using Evince is even necessary now. Is there any advantages with Evince over Adobe Reader?

[gigaSproule]

Not that I know off. I don't like Adobe Reader, but that is purely because I had a bad time with it once and it would open and crash constantly. I think evince opens more file types.

[Chronon]

Yes, Evince does more file types and runs a lot lighter than Adobe's Reader.

[gigaSproule]

So an all round better product then.

[jakslev]

I just had this issue. I tried running it from terminal, but it said that some file did not exist, so I just removed the package and reinstalled it. It says that it will uninstall ubuntu-desktop as well, so just accept it.

sudo apt-get remove evince
sudo apt-get install evince
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Thanks that did the trick and saved me from a (maybe fruitless) reinstall!
Please tag this question as solved - and for the asker we can only recommend getting Adobe uninstalled and doing this. Until Adobe creates a version of Photoshop and Illustrator for Linux they have no place on our machines ;o)

[kircher]

I had this same problem as well. Seems like a dodgy way to fix it though.

[gigaSproule]

It's just uninstalling and reinstalling. Nothing I wouldn't do on another system. Obviously something has conflicted and just needs to be corrected.

[moffa]

If I try to run it through the command line:

** (evince:8538): WARNING **: Error creating last_settings file: Error opening file '/home/username/.gnome2/evince/last_settings': No such file or directory

Segmentation fault