[gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Allan Gottlieb]

Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap.

For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains
  unable to open document
  unhandled mime type

Sometimes the mime type is application/text other times
it is application/octet-stream.

But the file is definitely a pdf.  For example
vita.pdf begins

   %PDF-1.2

grep pdf /etc/mime.types gives

   application/pdf                            pdf

I know there was a recent discussion about evince, but for that
user, evince knew the file type was application/pdf.


Since evince on another machine, allan, can view these files,
I don't think the files have gotten corrupted.  The files are
on ajglap; allan nfs mounts the files.  Also acroread on ajglap
has no trouble.

I have rebuild evince/poppler/poppler-bindings with no change.
I also ran revdep-rebuild, which rebuilt nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
allan

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Alan McKinnon]

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
>   unable to open document
>   unhandled mime type

As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I 
recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of 
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 do 
with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have 
system-wide side0effects.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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
>>   unable to open document
>>   unhandled mime type
>
> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I 
> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of 
> 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 do 
> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have 
> system-wide side0effects.

Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user.
Thank you for responding.

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Marcin Zwd]

Unfortunately I had the same problem. The solution you can find here:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258490

Marcin


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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
>>>   unable to open document
>>>   unhandled mime type
>>
>> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I
>> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of
>> 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 do
>> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have
>> system-wide side0effects.
>
> Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user.
> Thank you for responding.
>
> allan
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)--Solved ??

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:

> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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
>>>   unable to open document
>>>   unhandled mime type
>>
>> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I 
>> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of 
>> 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 do 
>> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have 
>> system-wide side0effects.
>
> Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user.
> Thank you for responding.

Removing the file ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache ended the problem.
The last modify date was 2006 and the failure started this month so it
wasn't the contents changing.  I am guessing that a new version of
something does not like this old file.

At any rate, evince now handles pdf files as it used to.

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:00:24 +0100 Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I had the same problem. The solution you can find here:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258490

Thank you for this information.  Somehow I missed it.

allan

PS In this mailing list the custom and member preference is not to top
post.  That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with)
the original, not before it.

> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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
>>>>   unable to open document
>>>>   unhandled mime type
>>>
>>> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I
>>> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of
>>> 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 do
>>> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have
>>> system-wide side0effects.
>>
>> Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user.
>> Thank you for responding.
>>
>> allan
>>
>>

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Dale]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
> Thank you for this information.  Somehow I missed it.
>
> allan
>
> PS In this mailing list the custom and member preference is not to top
> post.  That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with)
> the original, not before it.
>
>   

Bottom post and text only is preferred.   I think replies in the middle
are OK.  Sort of keeps some things in context too.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Mick]

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On Monday 16 February 2009, Dale wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> > PS In this mailing list the custom and member preference is not to top
> > post.  That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with)
> > the original, not before it.
>
> Bottom post and text only is preferred.   I think replies in the middle
> are OK.  Sort of keeps some things in context too.

Not to forget trimming the 2 pages of previous historic messages and leaving 
in only what is relevant to the current stage in the conversation ...
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Marcin Zwd]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009, Dale wrote:
>> Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> > PS In this mailing list the custom and member preference is not to top
>> > post.  That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with)
>> > the original, not before it.
>>
>> Bottom post and text only is preferred.   I think replies in the middle
>> are OK.  Sort of keeps some things in context too.
>
> Not to forget trimming the 2 pages of previous historic messages and leaving
> in only what is relevant to the current stage in the conversation ...
>

OK, Thanks.

Marcin