I found a file to test with at ftp://www.tug.org//tex- archive/dviware/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.pdf
In my tests on Dapper, evince downloaded the file nearly every time out of the 20 - 30 I tried, but in about 3 cases it failed. It crashed once with a BadAtom message, another it just hung and needed to force quit and another time it never displayed a login dialog and ethereal showed me it never got past ACKing the 220 server message. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evince ftp://www.tug.org//tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.pdf Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x114)! The program 'evince' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'. (Details: serial 2408 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I wouldn't consider this a confirmation myself. More people should test this. just run: evince ftp://www.tug.org//tex- archive/dviware/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.pdf -- Evince fails to open PDF files in FTP locations https://launchpad.net/bugs/47201 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
