OK, on further investigation the problem was in shared-mime-info, not evince, and the .local/share directory contents were causing things to go wrong.
Just deleting this directory fixed the problem. Please close this bug, sorry to have wasted everyone's time on it. -- unhandled file type - fails to open pdf and ps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187225 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
