Good thought, never thought about trying to run evince in a terminal session...
The answer is that it still fails and I get the following message: (evince:16765): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8: undefined symbol: cairo_mesh_pattern_begin_patch Segmentation fault (core dumped) I get the same message, no matter what PDF file I try to open. (Tried several) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093946 Title: Evince fails to open PDF files. worked prior to Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Any time I try to view a PDF file, an icon is created in the task bar that says "opening file ...." but the file does not open. No errors are shown and I have not located any messages in any of the logs. This problem affects ALL pdf files, but the files are displayable using "mupdf". According to the following, evince 3.6.0 is installed. apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I have attempted to purge and reinstall evince several times, even to the point of deleting the evince libraries in /usr/lib/ and /usr/share/ and /var/lib/dpkg/info/ The result is always the same. Sometimes after the failure, Ubuntu reports an internal error in evince - which I have told it to send a report to the developers. The report must be very small, as it takes less than a second to do so. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 26 22:25:34 2012 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-01 (55 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1093946/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
