Bug#588257: evince: Unable to open files with # in the name.

jello jello at waste.org
Tue Jul 6 15:03:41 UTC 2010


Package: evince
Version: 2.30.1-3
Severity: normal


When attempting to open a pdf file with a # in the name - for instance
"file_#123.pdf" it fails and says:

Unable to open document
Error opening file: No such file or directory

I can run `less`, or any other command on the file fine. If I rename the
file to "file_123.pdf" then it opens as expected. Looking at strace
output it seems to be discarding the # and everything after it, as if
it's a comment or something, and trying to lstat/open "file_".

I get invoices from a vendor as PDFs named like "Vendor_#nnnnn.pdf", so
it would be great if this could be fixed.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (902, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common           2.30.1-3         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer 
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.30.3-1         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.86-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevince2              2.30.1-3         Document (postscript, pdf) renderi
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.30.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.30.1-1         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info        0.71-3           FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.6.2-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus                      2.30.1-1   file manager and graphical shell f
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  unrar                         <none>     (no description available)

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