Launching from Nautilus shows the same problem for me. You probably need an NFS mount, or maybe even an autofs-mounted NFS mount, to reproduce this. Like I said, it only happens in /net for me.
I just tried copying my file to bar.pdf. Then evince /net/llama/home/peter/bar.pdf works. (It makes a copy in /tmp/evince-8626/document-5-bar.pdf). I tried ln -s ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf foo.pdf, then evince /net/llama/home/peter/foo.pdf fails, with the message Unable to open document Unhandled MIME type: "application/octet-stream" /tmp/evince-8626 contains lrwxrwxrwx 1 peter peter 26 2007-08-30 16:28 document-6-foo.pdf -> ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf (i.e. it copied the symlink, and the symlink is broken because it is a relative link.) And sorry, I forgot I wasn't using reportbug... I'm running AMD64 feisty (with gutsy's kernel, but I don't think that's relevant.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers feisty-updates APT policy: (980, 'feisty-updates'), (980, 'feisty-security'), (980, 'feisty-proposed'), (980, 'feisty'), (500, 'gutsy'), (500, '... Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-10-generic Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages evince depends on: ii gconf2 2.18.0.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gs-esp-x 8.15.4.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-0ubuntu1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.5-0ubuntu14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.2-0ubuntu1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1ubuntu4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.73-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdjvulibre15 3.5.17-3ubuntu2 Runtime support for the DjVu image ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1ubuntu1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5ubuntu1.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.18.0.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-3 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.11-0ubuntu1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.8.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-3ubuntu2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.17.92-0ubuntu1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.11-0ubuntu3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.3-1build1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkpathsea4 3.0-27ubuntu1 path search library for teTeX (run ii liblaunchpad-inte 0.1.13 library for launchpad integration ii libnautilus-exten 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1 libraries for nautilus components ii liborbit2 1:2.14.7-0ubuntu1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.2-0ubuntu1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1ubuntu1 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler1 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.1 PDF rendering library ii libpoppler1-glib 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based ii libpopt0 1.10-3build1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.2-1build1 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.1.2-0ubuntu4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.1-1ubuntu3 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 2:1.0.3-1build1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.0-1build1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.1-4build1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1ubuntu3 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.0-3ubuntu1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13ubuntu4 compression library - runtime evince recommends no packages. -- evince chokes on absolute paths that include a # https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135680 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs