evince fails to open any pdf file in 10.04

[luislupe]

Hi,

evince cannot open any pdf file in Ubuntu 10.04.
I've already removed the package completely, reinstalled, as well as ubuntu-desktop, but the problem remains.

$ evince

(evince:3737): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/br/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Falha ao abrir o ficheiro '/home/br/.recently-used.xbel': Permissão negada.

Permission denied, it says, but:
$ ll .recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 br br 45437 2010-05-04 18:15 .recently-used.xbel
seems to have read/write permissions.

When I try to open a pdf file, the output is:
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to read filechooser settings from "/home/br/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini": Permissão negada
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to read filechooser settings from "/home/br/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini": Permissão negada


(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to read filechooser settings from "/home/br/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini": Permissão negada
(more two errors like this)
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/home/br/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Falha ao criar o ficheiro '/home/br/.recently-used.xbel.Q76PCV': Permissão negada
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/home/br/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Permissão negada
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/home/br/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Falha ao criar o ficheiro '/home/br/.recently-used.xbel.5B7PCV': Permissão negada
(evince:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/home/br/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Permissão negada
Error: Couldn't create temporary font file
some font thing failed
(several of this)


It says no permission, but permissions seem to be ok here, too:
$ ll .config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 br br 203 2010-05-03 19:12 .config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini

What should I do in order to fix this? It seems I'm the only one with this problem in the new 10.04.

[luislupe]

Is this a bug? or just some misconfiguration?

I'd appreciate an answers.


luislupe

[Seal Daemon]

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince /etc/apparmor.d/disable

Try again ?

[luislupe]

Thanks for the tip, but evince behaves in the same strange way.

[Seanman]

I found this post when I had the same issue.

When I burnt down the machine and installed Lucid, I copied over my old bashrc where the TMP variable was set to a directory that doesn't exist on my new system.

Setting the variable in my bashrc to /tmp took care of it for me. Evince works great now.

Hope that helps with your problem.

[thechanklybore]

Thanks for the tip, but evince behaves in the same strange way.

It works for me - definitely a problem with apparmor. Did you reload the apparmour profiles?

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor restart

[canard10]

I had a similar problem. In my case the reason was that my home dir is not in /home/. It could be solved by adapting the apparmor configuration, see http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004 section Evince PDF viewer does not work for nonstandard home directories.