[CentOS] CentOS 5.7, evince

Wed Oct 26 19:47:11 UTC 2011
David C. Miller <millerdc at fusion.gat.com>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:03:19 AM
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7, evince
> 
> I believe I updated evince early this month on this one server. Since
> then
> I don't seem to be able to open a .pdf: 100% of the time, I get
> "unhandled
> mime type: files/allfiles". Has anyone seen anything like this?
> 
> Note that this is when it's allegedly trying to open it. I've tried
> telling it what to open from the command line, and brought it up by
> itself, told it to open, pointed it to the correct directory, and
> clicked
> on the .pdf I want, and hit <open>, and *bang*, it doesn't like it.
> 
> I've rm'd .local/share/mime/mime.cache and
> .gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml.
> straceing doesn't even show me the filename mentioned.
> 
>         mark
> 

No problem opening pdf's using the latest evince under 5.7 64 bit here.

David.