From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LYhKY-0007ZR-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:46:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8C55E03B2; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96FFE03B2 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578da1c.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.218.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1FDkjHJ001751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id F3BB119D922; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:38 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?) References: <200902150940.43007.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902150940.43007.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Sun\, 15 Feb 2009 09\:40\:42 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6d6931ff-04ba-464b-980c-a1c8bff661b3 X-Archives-Hash: aeb895921b1a3473c8cd38a1decbb2a8 At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon = wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. >> >> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains >> =A0 unable to open document >> =A0 unhandled mime type > > As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I= =20 > recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of= =20 > others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it. > > I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to d= o=20 > with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can= have=20 > system-wide side0effects. Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user. Thank you for responding. allan