evince apparmor profile prevents movies from opening
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apparmor (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Jamie Strandboge | ||
evince (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Jamie Strandboge |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evince
Trying to open a movie with vlc or totem from within evince. I get the error: "Failed to execute child process vlc (Permission denied)". The same with totem.
I have been looking at all the "apparmor prevents" bugs that have been reported of late. DVI printing, chromium, etc... the package maintainers' strategy has been to add an exceptions to the apparmor profile as the bugs come in. May I comment that this is a ludicrous situation? There are going to be numerous helper applications that people might want to use within a PDF file... why is apparmor blocking them all?
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Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
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evince:
Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Expected to happen: movie opens when clicked on
What happens instead: help application (totem/vlc) prevented from running by apparmor
Reproducible: 100%
Related branches
Changed in evince (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Thank you for your bug report, those common software should probably be allowed from apparmor for all desktop profiles there