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evince apparmor profile blocks DVI printing

Bug #452057 reported by Søren Bredlund Caspersen on 2009-10-15

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evince (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Jamie Strandboge	Ubuntu ubuntu-9.10
	Karmic	Fix Released	High	Jamie Strandboge	Ubuntu ubuntu-9.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

I have upgraded to Karmic a few days ago.

Now Document Viewer (evince) won't print .dvi files. I can select the printer, but they don't show up in the print queue. Printing .pdf files works fine.

This worked fine in 9.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 12:32:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/evince

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Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c) wrote on 2009-10-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
KernLog.txt Edit (36.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (33.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (753 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (163 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (427.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Duncan Sands (baldrick-free) wrote on 2009-10-15:

Apparmor stops evince from running the helper program /usr/bin/dvipdfm, which evince uses when printing dvi files.
Here's the apparmor audit line from dmesg:

type=1503 audit(1255613594.858:24): operation="exec" pid=2889 parent=2876 profile="/usr/bin/evince" requested_mask="::x" denied_mask="::x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name="/usr/bin/dvipdfm"

The result is that it is no longer possible to print dvi files. Presumably the apparmor profile for evince should be taught that running /usr/bin/dvipdfm is ok.

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2009-10-15

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.10
status:	New → Triaged
tags:	added: regression-potential

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2009-10-15

summary:

- Document Viewer won't print DVI files, but prints .pdf files with no
- trouble.
+ evince apparmor profile blocks DVI printing

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2009-10-15:

evince_2.28.0-0ubuntu5.debdiff Edit (914 bytes, text/plain)

Debdiff to fix the bug.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu Karmic):
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2009-10-16

Changed in evince (Ubuntu Karmic):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-10-16:

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.28.0-0ubuntu5

---------------
evince (2.28.0-0ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

* debian/apparmor-profile.abstraction: allow execute of dvipdfm, allowing
for printing of DVI files to work again (LP: #452057)

-- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:28:40 -0500

Changed in evince (Ubuntu Karmic):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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farchumbre (farchumbre) wrote on 2009-11-03:

Evince 2.28.1 can't print pdf files in ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala.
It was working before with ubuntu 9.04
any suggestions?

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Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c) wrote on 2009-11-03:

You should properly go ahead and file another bug report. This one is 'fix released' and relates to .dvi files.

I have no problem printing .pdf files here. So you may want to supply a test case or more info when you do file the bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+filebug

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Florian Ludwig (dino-phidev) wrote on 2010-08-01:

I got evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1 and still get:

** (evince:18031): WARNING **: Error: Failed to execute child process "dvipdfm" (Permission denied)

dmesg:

[305634.739982] type=1503 audit(1280683743.766:24): operation="exec" pid=18098 parent=18031 profile="/usr/bin/evince" requested_mask="::x" denied_mask="::x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name="/usr/bin/dvipdfmx"

/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/evince, line 54:

/usr/bin/dvipdfm Ux,

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Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c) wrote on 2010-08-01:

This bug is indeed back in 10.04

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2010-08-03:

This bug is marked Fix Released and for what was initially reported, it is:
/usr/bin/dvipdfm Ux,

The problem you are seeing is that Lucid is apparently using 'dvipdfmx', not 'dvipdfm'. Please file a new bug and we can work towards a solution in that bug.