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At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>>> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. |
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>>> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains |
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>>> unable to open document |
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>>> unhandled mime type |
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>> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I |
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>> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of |
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>> others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it. |
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>> I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to do |
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>> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have |
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>> system-wide side0effects. |
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> Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user. |
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> Thank you for responding. |
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Removing the file ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache ended the problem. |
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The last modify date was 2006 and the failure started this month so it |
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wasn't the contents changing. I am guessing that a new version of |
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something does not like this old file. |
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At any rate, evince now handles pdf files as it used to. |
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allan |
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