It turns out this is due to some weird interaction with the alacritty
snap (https://snapcraft.io/alacritty). evince wasn't the only software
to do this. Other GUI apps such as nautilus and eog when started from
the terminal did the same thing.
Closing this.
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Public bug reported:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 21.04
Release:21.04
$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
Installed: 40.1-1
Candidate: 40.1-1
Version table:
*** 40.1-1 500
500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpk
After upgrading from gutsy to hardy I experienced this problem of hald
not starting and avahi-daemon also not starting. I redid the symlinks
for hal (12->24) and gdm (13->30) but that didn't cure the problem.
Starting hald manually indicated that it was failing while trying to
open /usr/local/var/
Rebooting after the update fixed everything for me...
Just an aside, the same problem had broken R (statistics package), well
at least the X11 display of plots.
Thats fixed too.
Thanks to everyone who made this bug disappear so fast!
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Just thought I would add a Me too to this bug.
I have the same problem. I was using evince successfully yesterday, but
now its not working right.
BTW, I get the same problem if I use evince locally or over a ssh -X
connection. That implies that its something up with the GTK layer ? (is
not sure a
