Examined the particular file further. It is a .cbr file - I misspoke when I said it was .cbz. It appears to have a corrupt header. That means the real problem is that evince is responding with the wrong error message - it's saying "I can't open this type of file" when what it really means is "I can't open this particular file". A bit like saying you don't like Australians just because you once met Rupert Murdoch.
To test this more general hypothesis, I created a text file, filled it with gibberish, and saved it as foo.cbr. I double-clicked to open it in evince, and got the same "File type RAR archive (application/x-rar) is not supported" message. So it appears that an exception is getting swallowed and something is making a faulty guess as to the reason. -- 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/894576 Title: .cbz files don't open, error message says rar archives not supported Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Tried to open a .cbz file that works fine on a standard Ubuntu 11.10 machine. In Lubuntu I got the message "File type RAR archive (application/x-rar) is not supported". Both rar and unrar are installed, so that's obviously the Wrong Thing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: evince 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Nov 25 10:30:25 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - i386 (20101203) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_AU:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-22 (33 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/894576/+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
