Evince cannot create some files because of apparmor if home-directory is not in /home/

Bug #489170 reported by Jonathan Ernst
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apparmor (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Opening a PDF file in my home-dir (which is /data/jernst) results in the following errors being printed in my terminal : see terminal.txt

And the following error in dmesg : see dmesg.txt

Doing the same with another user whose home dir is in /home doesn't show any error.

I can reproduce this on two different karmic boxes with home directories not in /home.

$ grep jernst /etc/passwd
jernst:x:1000:1000:Jonathan Ernst,,,:/data/jernst:/bin/bash

$ pwd
/data/jernst/Bureau

$ evince somefile.pdf
-> see terminal.txt

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 27 13:09:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 [modified: usr/bin/evince usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer usr/bin/evince-previewer]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :
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Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst) wrote :
description: updated
affects: evince (Ubuntu) → apparmor (Ubuntu)
Changed in apparmor (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thank you for the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this bug has already been reported. Please review https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingApparmor#Adjusting%20Tunables as well as the information and solution in bug #447292.

Changed in apparmor (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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