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 1LYr9i-0008QK-Gr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:16:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 534A0E0341; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38319E0341 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:16:13 +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 n1G0GCq5024008 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:16:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 8295919D922; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:16:07 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)--Solved ?? References: <200902150940.43007.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:16:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Allan Gottlieb's message of "Sun\, 15 Feb 2009 08\:46\:37 -0500") 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: d37b1f4c-3e7a-435a-a9f0-4acd00e4a7b8 X-Archives-Hash: f02aa985961ff06f53da9d832ba35f11 At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 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 = do=20 >> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one ca= n have=20 >> 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