On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día domingo, octubre 20, 2019 a las 09:25:46a. m. +0100, Nuno Silva > escribió: > > > On 2019-10-19, José María Mateos wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:17:06 +0100 Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > >> Running 'evince ~/.mitt/fred.pdf' displays the PDF file successfully > > >> but running 'evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf' produces a Permission Denied > > >> message in a pop-up window. All directory names I have tried other > > >> than .mutt allow the PDF file to be read. > > I can't reproduce this on FreeBSD. The OP could run on any Linux (don't > know if the problem is on Linux): > > strace -o evince.tr -f evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf > > and look into the file evince.tr which open(2) or stat(2) gives a > Permission Denied and why. If the OP can't see this, he/she should > post this file somewhere. > > matthias > I'm running xubuntu 19.04 on both systems which show this bug. I don't have evince on any other system at the moment.
I will try the strace and also I may try installing evince on a system which is running xubuntu 18.04 to see if the bug is there too. Thanks everyone and listen to this space! :-) -- Chris Green
