Evince unable to start mail reader (apparmor-related)

[none]

Binary package hint: evince

I use Claws Mail as my mail reader. When I click on a "mailto:" link in a pdf document, Evince pops up a yellow bar saying "Unable to start process claws-mail: permission denied".

If I do "sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop", then Evince *can* start Claws Mail and everything works as expected. I guess something needs to be changed in the AppArmor profile for evince.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 2 12:18:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: evince 2.27.90-0ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Johan,

Can you add the following to /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/evince:
  /usr/bin/claws Ux,

and then do:
$ sudo apparmor_parser -r -T -W /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince

then try again?

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, that works (with the small change that the binary is actually /usr/bin/claws-mail).

Thank you!

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks. I'll upload this after the archive is unfrozen.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.27.90-0ubuntu8

---------------
evince (2.27.90-0ubuntu8) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * debian/evince.postinst:
    - let the packaging tools add their snippets so the schemas are registered
      (lp: #422777)

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * debian/apparmor-profile.abstraction: allow the claws email client
    (LP: #423236)
  * debian/postrm: cleanup apport .pyc file
  * debian/apparmor-profile: allow evince to transition to itself, so print
    preview works (LP: #423687)
  * debian/apparmor-profile.abstraction: use new ubuntu-* abstractions for
    email clients and web browsers
  * debian/control*: adjust Suggests to unversioned and Conflicts with apparmor
    << 2.3.1+1403-0ubuntu18 for the ubuntu-* abstractions change

 -- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:01:50 -0500