I have a similar issue with evince in Lucid Server, basic X.org installation (no gnome desktop)
$ evince
** (evince:12592): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
(evince:12592): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/UNIXHOME/agottschalk/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Failed to open file '/home/UNIXHOME/agottschalk/.recently-used.xbel': Permission denied.
I have a similar issue with evince in Lucid Server, basic X.org installation (no gnome desktop)
$ evince
** (evince:12592): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome. SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome. SettingsDaemon' : no such name
(evince:12592): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/ UNIXHOME/ agottschalk/ .recently- used.xbel' , but the parser failed: Failed to open file '/home/ UNIXHOME/ agottschalk/ .recently- used.xbel' : Permission denied.
** (evince:12592): WARNING **: Error creating last_settings file: Error opening file '/home/ UNIXHOME/ agottschalk/ .gnome2/ evince/ last_settings' : Permission denied
Segmentation fault