Evince error in new FC 5 installation

dyokana · #1 2006-04-12, 01:57 AM CDT

I just installed FC5. I repartitioned the entire disk and installed a competely new version of FC5. Now, whenever I start Evince to open a PDF document I get:

Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-extension-pdf'

Any help appreciated.

dyokana · #2 2006-04-12, 03:18 PM CDT

To answer my own question:
I had to delete the directory ~/.local/share/mime. From what I read, some sort of a Nautilus bug.

linuxyeung · #3 2006-04-16, 05:53 PM CDT

I have exactly the same problem. However, when I check ~/.local/share, there is no mime file or directory. Any idea?

dyokana · #4 2006-04-16, 11:39 PM CDT

None. You might try hunting through the hidden . files and see what you find.

linuxyeung · #5 2006-04-17, 07:26 PM CDT

New discovery: When I su to root, I can run evince without any problem. Weird!

dyokana · #6 2006-04-17, 07:44 PM CDT

That's probably because a different environment is then accessed. You could compare the files in root's home to those in the user's home.

linuxyeung · #7 2006-04-20, 01:31 PM CDT

Finally, I got evince working! It turns out that for some unknown reason, all xml files used by evince which are located in /usr/share/mime and its sub-directories are "root" readable only. This explains why I can use evince when I log in as root. Once I chmod all the files to group and world readable, evince works with no problem.