Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 with Evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1. I also have autofs
setup to automount filesystems from both my home and my work.
If I open a PDF from a filesystem at home, for example
/mnt/caseserver/home/mlcase/InterestPaid.pdf, an entry for this file
gets created in .recently-used.xbel gets created to log this recently
opened file.
Now suppose I go to work and attempt to open Evince. It traverses
.recently-used.xbel and apparently attempts to probe each PDF that is
named in that file. The home filesystem is not available, and evince
fails to start.
>From an strace:
open("/home/mlcase/.recently-used.xbel", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
...
stat64("/tmp/kuehlmann01transformationbased.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0400,
st_size=170785, ...}) = 0
stat64("/mnt/caseserver/home/mlcase/InterestPaid.pdf",
The stat64 call never comes back, even after waiting for up to 1 hour.
I can work around this by removing .recently-used.xbel, but this issue
really needs to be fixed. Why do the recent PDF files be stat'd? If
it's really necessary, this operation should at least be done under a
timeout.
A quick search on Google turns up the related Evince bugs 243250 and
210313, but the bugs never seem to have been resolved.
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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evince fails to start with strange .recently-used.xbel entries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319274
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