Glad to find an answer for this thumbnailer issue. I've just tested the proposed packages and they also work for me.
It's worth mentioning that you need to install both evince and evince- common packages from proposed: aptitude install evince/natty-proposed evince-common/natty-proposed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778638 Title: evince-thunbnailer gets permission denied from apparmor (and hangs the system for long periods of time) Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “evince” source package in Natty: Fix Committed Bug description: Binary package hint: evince On my workstation (10.65.4.190), my $(HOME) is mounted from an nfs server (10.65.21.2) and for some reason apparmor denies evince- thumbnailer to do its work. This causes _long_ delays blocking the complete desktop for many minutes every now and then: [ 97.012905] type=1400 audit(1304700706.641:24): apparmor="DENIED" operation="sendmsg" parent=2437 profile="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer" pid=2464 comm="evince-thumbnai" laddr=10.65.4.190 lport=712 faddr=10.65.21.2 fport=2049 family="inet" sock_type="stream" protocol=6 [ 97.012921] nfs: RPC call returned error 13 This is on maverick, but also on oneiric evince version: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 apparmor version: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/778638/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

