#518664 evince: cannot open pdfs at all - unhandled mime-type application/octet-stream

Package:
libglib2.0-0
Source:
glib2.0
Description:
GLib library of C routines
Submitter:
Dimitrios Kapanikis
Date:
2010-09-16 13:09:05 UTC
Severity:
important
#518664#5
Date:
2009-03-07 18:52:07 UTC
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cannot open any pdfs. An Error appears: Unhandled mime-type
"application/octet-stream"
#518664#10
Date:
2009-03-07 19:21:12 UTC
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i removed ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache as said in [1] and it works for me now.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/163764/comments/21
#518664#15
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2009-07-26 17:16:15 UTC
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#518664#20
Date:
2009-07-26 17:28:51 UTC
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This bug is solved after removing  ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache as
mentioned above
#518664#25
Date:
2009-08-03 22:41:30 UTC
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reassign 518664 libglib2.0-0
forcemerge 517768 518664
thanks

Dimitrios Kapanikis wrote:

Looks like #517768, merging.

Emilio
#518664#36
Date:
2009-11-01 11:18:53 UTC
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i removed ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache as said in [1] and it works for me now.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/163764/comments/21

I looked into my ~/.local/share/ and did not find a mime directory.
I had to remove the file /usr/local/share/mime/mime.cache
This solved the problem.

Matthias Lesch
(ml@matthiaslesch.de)