Unfortunately I had the same problem. The solution you can find here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258490
Marcin On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. >>> >>> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains >>> unable to open document >>> unhandled mime type >> >> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I >> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of >> others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it. >> >> I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to do >> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can >> have >> system-wide side0effects. > > Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user. > Thank you for responding. > > allan > >

