At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > 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. Removing the file ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache ended the problem. The last modify date was 2006 and the failure started this month so it wasn't the contents changing. I am guessing that a new version of something does not like this old file. At any rate, evince now handles pdf files as it used to. allan
