For me, the released fix doesn't work. This is a NIS network with NFS mounted home directories mounted at /usr/people - a legacy our system being from the IRIX days. (I don't know if that make any difference)
Installed version info: russ...@basking:~$ evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 2.30.1 russ...@basking:~$ aptitude show evince Package: evince State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.30.1-0ubuntu3 --snip-- My strace output when running evince: --snip-- access("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2", F_OK) = 0 stat("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=133, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2/evince", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2/evince", 0700) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) lstat("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2/evince/last_settings", 0x7fff7b7d6ea0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/people/russell/.gnome2/evince/last_settings", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "\n** (evince:3441): WARNING **: E"..., 164 ** (evince:3441): WARNING **: Error creating last_settings file: Error opening file '/usr/people/russell/.gnome2/evince/last_settings': No such file or directory ) = 164 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- As you can see here, clearly the same error. If I make the ./gnome2/evince directory and then touch the last_settings file, it works fine. Any suggestions? I'm more than happy to do further testing. -- evince not open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571725 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs