Evince Permissions

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 03:25:56

hi! When I try to open a pdf file using evince, I just see a quick flash of evince and then nothing. There isn't any output to the terminal which shows an error.
If I open evince using sudo, everything works fine which leads me to believe there is some sort of permissions problem?

I'm running gnome 2.24.2 on x86_64. I believe the problem started today when I upgraded to gnome-session 2.24.2-2.

thanks,

skottish · 2008-12-22 03:34:14

Does opening the PDF from the command line give you any errors?

evince <your_pdf>

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 03:39:42

No errors, nothing but a quick flash of evince opening the document.

Here's what I see at the command line,

[campbell@cipher Unit4]$ evince Unit4_Written_Assignment_Campbell.pdf
[campbell@cipher Unit4]$

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2008-12-22 03:41:27)

skottish · 2008-12-22 03:51:14

Strange. I'm not using gnome-session, or Gnome for that matter, so I can't help much there. Just wild guess, would you please post the output of:

ls -al ~/.config/evince

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 03:54:50

[campbell@cipher ~]$ ls -al ~/.config/evince
total 44
drwxr-x--- 2 campbell users 4096 2008-08-29 10:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 campbell users 4096 2008-12-21 15:44 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 campbell users 4428 2008-10-21 20:16 accels
-rw-r--r-- 1 campbell users 26846 2008-10-21 20:16 ev-metadata.xml

[campbell@cipher evince]$ cat accels 
; evince GtkAccelMap rc-file         -*- scheme -*-
; this file is an automated accelerator map dump
;
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/AttachmentPopupActions/OpenAttachment" "<Control>o")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewDual" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditToolbar" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Edit" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewPresentation" "F5")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewBestFit" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewSidebar" "F9")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/CtrlKpMinus" "<Control>KP_Subtract")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Escape" "Escape")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Space" "space")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditRotateRight" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/PageUp" "Page_Up")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Help" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Go" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FilePrintSetup" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ShiftSpace" "<Shift>space")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/HelpAbout" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditFind" "<Control>f")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoBackwardFast" "<Shift>Page_Up")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewZoomIn" "<Control>plus")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Slash" "slash")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditRotateLeft" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Minus" "minus")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewFullscreen" "F11")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditSelectAll" "<Control>a")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Equal" "equal")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/PageDown" "Page_Down")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FilePrint" "<Control>p")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewAutoscroll" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/CtrlKpPlus" "<Control>KP_Add")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoFirstPage" "<Control>Home")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditFindNext" "<Control>g")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FileOpen" "<Control>o")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoLastPage" "<Control>End")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Plus" "plus")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/Return" "Return")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ShiftReturn" "<Shift>Return")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/CopyLinkAddress" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/OpenLink" "<Control>o")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FileCloseWindow" "<Control>w")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ShiftBackSpace" "<Shift>BackSpace")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FocusPageSelector" "<Control>l")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/OpenLinkNewWindow" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditFindPrevious" "<Shift><Control>g")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewContinuous" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FileOpenCopy" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditCopy" "<Control>c")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoNextPage" "<Control>Page_Down")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/View" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewPageWidth" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewZoomOut" "<Control>minus")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/CtrlEqual" "<Control>equal")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/BackSpace" "BackSpace")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/AttachmentPopupActions/SaveAttachmentAs" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/GoLink" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/CopyImage" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewToolbar" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoForwardFast" "<Shift>Page_Down")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ViewPopupActions/SaveImageAs" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FileSaveAs" "<Control>s")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/File" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/KpMinus" "KP_Subtract")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/ViewReload" "<Control>r")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoPreviousPage" "<Control>Page_Up")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/KpPlus" "KP_Add")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/FileProperties" "<Alt>Return")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/HelpContents" "F1")
[campbell@cipher evince]$

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2008-12-22 04:00:06)

SamC · 2008-12-22 04:03:01

Try removing/moving to a different place your ~/.config/evince directory?

skottish · 2008-12-22 04:11:26

SamC wrote:

Try removing/moving to a different place your ~/.config/evince directory?

That's worth a try. The permissions look fine. As well, I ran a diff on your accels and the one on my machine, and while different, I didn't notice anything.

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 04:11:54

I moved the ~/.config/evince directory to my desktop and restarted the computer. Still, same thing happens.

Let me add that I can open evince itself without opening any document. (type evince at the command line). If I then try to open a pdf, evince just goes away.

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2008-12-22 04:15:55)

jacko · 2008-12-22 04:22:24

try rebuilding evince from abs and see if it still happens, then it might be worth a bug report.

skottish · 2008-12-22 04:26:58

If you have it installed, it may be worth checking gconf-editor to see if anything is there.

------EDIT-------

It looks like I may be wrong about the configuration directory. It may be storing stuff in ~/.gnome2 instead of ~/.config.

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 04:53:48

I did a rebuild of evince from the abs-----same thing happens.
Deleted stuff in ~./gnome2/evince/----- same thing happens.

In gconf, there is one key for evince called override_restrictions

iBertus · 2008-12-22 05:00:19

Does evince work with other formats besides PDF? Try opening a djvu or dvi document to see if it works normally. If it does, this could be a poppler problem and not an evince problem.

edit: Also, does this happen with all PDFs? Perhaps try another PDF.

Last edited by iBertus (2008-12-22 05:00:57)

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 05:15:10

You're right. I can open dvi files and even some pdfs. I went and tried many different pdfs, there doesn't seem to be much a pattern to the ones which cannot be opened. However, I can view any pdf in evince if I do sudo evince filename.pdf, that's why I thought it was a permissions problem.

I also can veiw any pdf using xpdf.

----------------Edit-------------------------------
I was able to open a pdf yesterday that I can't open today. The only things which have changed since yesterday are the updates which I did today:

x86_64 Extra gnome-session 2.24.2-2 The GNOME Session Handler jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra glade 3.5.4-1 user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME. douglas 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra gnome-doc-utils 0.14.1-1 Documentation utilities for Gnome jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra libxml++2 2.24.1-1 C++ bindings to libxml - version 2x jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra tomboy 0.12.2-1 Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra cdlabelgen 4.1.0-1 Generates frontcards and traycards for CDs. Orphan 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra gajim 0.12.1-1 Jabber client written in PyGTK Orphan 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra intel-dri 7.2-2 Mesa DRI drivers for Intel chipsets jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra mercurial 1.1.1-1 A scalable distributed SCM tool douglas 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra xvattr 1.3-2 Adjust attributes associated with the Xv extension to XFree86 Orphan 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra at-spi 1.24.1-1 Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra gtk-sharp-2 2.12.7-1 gtk2 bindings for C# jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra muine 0.8.10-2 A music player written in C# jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra rpmextract 1.0-1 Script to convert or extract RPM archives (contains rpm2cpio) tpowa 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra xconq 7.5.0pre-1 Xconq is a general strategy game system. Orphan 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra beagle 0.3.8-2 Search tool that ransacks your personal information space jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra cairo 1.8.6-1 Cairo vector graphics library jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra firefox 3.0.5-1 Standalone web browser from mozilla.org jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra firefox-i18n 3.0.5-1 Language packs for Firefox jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra gnome-phone-manager 0.60-2 Control your mobile phone from your GNOME 2 desktop. jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra gtk2 2.14.6-1 The GTK+ Toolkit (v2) jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra libwebkit 1.0.3-0.39370 an opensource web content engine, derived from KHTML and KJS from KDE andyrtr 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra nss 3.12.2-1 Mozilla Network Security Services jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra pango 1.22.4-1 A library for layout and rendering of text jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra pycairo 1.8.0-1 Python bindings for the cairo graphics library jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra xcb-util 0.3.2-1 Utility libraries for XC Binding jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1 Mozilla Runtime Environment jgc 2008-12-21
x86_64 Extra hwdetect 2008.12-2 Hardware detection script with loading modules and mkinitcpio.conf / rc.conf support Orphan 2008-12-21

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2008-12-22 05:22:00)

greyhat.goon · 2008-12-22 05:52:27

Fixed************:cool:

I deleted all of the gnome config folders in my home directry: .gconf .gconfd .gnome .gnome2

After that, it worked. The problem must have been a config file some where other than an evince subfolder. Now I have to go and reconfigure all of my desktop settings

Thanks to everyone for your input and advice.

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2008-12-22 06:01:24)

iBertus · 2008-12-22 07:22:17

I guess the good ole 'just delete everything and start over' fix is a requirement now for GNOME... Congrats on getting it fixed.

jcci · 2008-12-25 04:00:15

I had the same problem. Just deleting ~./gnome2/evince is sufficient for solving the problem.

br4 · 2008-12-25 16:27:38

jcci wrote:

I had the same problem. Just deleting ~./gnome2/evince is sufficient for solving the problem.

me too.After deleting ~./gnome2/evince one must not double click a file not opening before, you have to open it from evince. After that every thing is normal.(You have to do that just once on just one file)

jcci · 2008-12-26 02:33:01

Sorry, the post is not entirely accurate: Removing the ~/.gnome2/evince makes evince works just for some files.
This problem is new - I used the same files short time ago with Evince.

br4 · 2008-12-26 08:19:33

Try

br4 wrote:

jcci wrote:
I had the same problem. Just deleting ~./gnome2/evince is sufficient for solving the problem.
me too.After deleting ~./gnome2/evince one must not double click a file not opening before, you have to open it from evince. After that every thing is normal.(You have to do that just once on just one file)

Now i don't have any problems.

gnu_D · 2008-12-27 20:54:55

I rebuilded Evince from ABS, and everything see this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 56#p470356.
And even removed ~./gnome2/evince, but still I get errors:

gnu_d ~/Desktop $ evince OOFontTest.pdf
** (evince:3156): WARNING **: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
384dc664-00f5-0e1e-6315e749-0d1f0202 is dumped

But "sudo evince OOFontTest.pdf" works just fine.
Odd, root doesn't have ~./gnome2/evince.

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Evince Permissions

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