Ubuntu
evince package

can't open pdf when shared-mime-info is not installed

Bug #208729 reported by akaposi on 2008-03-29

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evince	Invalid	Medium	gnome-bugs #554563
	evince (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince-gtk

On Ubuntu Hardy Beta Server Edition and Ubuntu 8.04.1, evince-gtk cannot open any pdf files.
The error message it gives:
Unable to open document
Unhandled MIME type: “application/octet-stream”

After installing shared-mime-info package the problem disappears.

How to reproduce the bug: completely remove the shared-mime-info package in Synaptic than try to open any pdf file in Evince (evince-gtk).

How to resolve this bug: add shared-mime-info as a dependecy of evince-gtk.

See original description

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2008-04-04

Changed in evince:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-08-08:

does it happens with all the pdf? may you attach the problematic one to the report? thanks.

Changed in evince:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	New → Incomplete

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akaposi (ambrus.kaposi) wrote on 2008-08-19:

test.pdf Edit (14.9 KiB, application/pdf)

It does happen with all the pdf files, including the attached pdf.
The error message is: Unhandled MIME type: “application/octet-stream”

description:	updated
description:	updated

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2008-08-21

Changed in evince:
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-09-12:

thank you for your bug report, that seems to be an upstream issue, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-09-30:

the libglib2.0-0 package should probably recommends shared-mime-info

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-01:

I've opened a bug on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554563 about handling such cases nicely

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-10-01

Changed in evince:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-10-02

Changed in evince:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2008-10-06:

When is shared-mime-info NOT installed these days? Seems like it should be a dependency of several packages that evince requires.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-10-06

Changed in evince:
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-01-08

Changed in evince:
status:	Invalid → Confirmed

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2009-01-08:

if i type "sudo aptitude remove shared-mime-info", i get "The following packages are BROKEN: eog libgnomevfs2-common nautilus" and then it asks permission to remove about 1 million packages, including nautilus, firefox-3.0, eog, totem, etc

Is this a problem only in GNOME-less systems?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16