Binary package hint: evince
When attempting to open a pdf in evince 2.30.0 from a directory having a particularly punctuated name (e.g., with colons ':'), the pdf is not opened and evince returns the error message "Unable to open document: The specified location is not supported". This appears to be similar to, but different than, bug #112125.
This is occurring in Lucid 10.04 release candidate, but occurred in 9.10 as well.
Steps to recreate:
1) On the command line, create a directory with a colon in the name (e.g., `mkdir ~/Desktop/fu\:bar`)
2) Copy a pdf into that directory (e.g., `cp trololo.pdf ~/Desktop/fu\:bar/`)
3) Attempt to open the pdf from *outside* that directory (e.g., `evince ~/Desktop/fu\:bar/trololo.pdf`)
4) See the error message, but not your document
However, if you change directory to the nefarious directory and open from there, the problem goes away:
1) e.g., `cd ~/Desktop/fu\:bar`
2) `evince trololo.pdf`
3) Ah! There you are!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evince 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 28 11:01:38 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
reproduced as described, investigating.
$ uname -a
Linux tallguy 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux