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Wannes Rombouts (wapiflapi) wrote : Evince is not allowed to open links from a pdf

Using a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04 beta, I can not open links from within evince.

A red bar appears on top and says :
"Unable to open external link"
"Failed to execute child process "exo-open" (Permission denied)"

I suppose this is due to a bad configuration of AppArmor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 24 02:40:31 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
KernLog:
 Apr 24 02:22:50 box kernel: [349882.938280] type=1400 audit(1335226970.303:28): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=13156 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/exo-open" pid=13157 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
 Apr 24 02:23:01 box kernel: [349894.110102] type=1400 audit(1335226981.475:29): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=13158 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/exo-open" pid=13159 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
 Apr 24 02:29:40 box kernel: [350293.526127] type=1400 audit(1335227380.890:30): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=13225 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/exo-open" pid=13226 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)