Bug 196351 - Evince gives error: Unable to open document Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
Summary: Evince gives error: Unable to open document Unhandled MIME type: 'application...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 190858
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.thespectrum.com/movies/mov...
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-22 17:54 UTC by Trever Adams
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-06-29 20:55:47 UTC
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Description Trever Adams 2006-06-22 17:54:53 UTC
Description of problem:
Evince won't open most pdf files. It gives the error in the summary. This bug
has been around since FC5 or before. It is very annoying and not at all
acceptable for firefox and evince.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-0.5.3-3

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL listed above
  
Actual results:
The error message in the summary.

Expected results:
PDF should be displayed.

Additional info:
None at this time.

Comment 1 Levin Fritz 2006-06-24 11:30:38 UTC
If I am not mistaken, this is a duplicate of bug #193582 and/or bug #186241.
Ultimately, it's caused by a bug in shared-mime-info,
(http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6577) which is fixed in CVS but not
in any released version.

Comment 2 Trever Adams 2006-06-24 18:36:35 UTC
This is one of those examples where "fixed in CVS" is indeed not a good answer.
This has been around for about 5 months in rawhide/FC5 if I am not mistaken. I
am not reporting it because it is beginning to make me very frustrated. I have
pasted a link to an interesting and relevant article.

http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/09/2011212&tid=25

Comment 3 Kristian Høgsberg 2006-06-29 20:55:47 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190858 ***


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