Re: Evince no longer reads PDF files

[Nexist Xenda'ths <nexist comcast net>]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> В Втр, 27/12/2005 в 17:52 -0800, Nexist Xenda'ths пишет:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > To be honest, I know not what I did.  I updated some things via Synaptic 
> > and Evince no longer opens PDF files -- though the files I am trying to 
> > open show up in the "recent documents" list.
> >
> > I am running Agnula Demudi 1.2.1 with additions from the unstable Debian 
> > repositories.
> >
> > Gnome: 2.10.2
> > Evince: 0.4.0
> >
> > It tells me  "Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-extension-pdf'"
> >
> > I am making due with Acroread, but to be honest, Evince is better, so I 
> > would like to go back to it as soon as possible.  What can I check 
> > modify to get it working with PDF's again.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Douglas
>
>
>
> Hi Douglas.
>
> It seems that you've created new mime type for pdf documents. Probably
> it was Nautilus bug, because I've heart about similar problem before.
> When nautilus knows nothing about application/x-pdf it creates
> user-defined custom mime type application/x-extension-pdf. Of course,
> evince knows nothing about that.
>
> Please look at your .gnome and .gnome2 and .share directories for string
> with x-extension-pdf and remove wrong type definition.
>
> It would be nice if you'll be able to reproduce this situation with
> creation of mime type. We probably should file a bug against Nautilus.

Perhaps I am especially dense, but what should I change it to (it was in 
/home/nexist/.local/share/mime/ ).  I changed the 
'application/x-extension-pdf' to 'application/x-pdf', but to no avail.

Douglas