Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

I installed Evince and fired it up but it saying loading, spins and then goes back to the desktop.

I just tied rebooting but still the same thing.

This is on a n810 using 2008 latest version...

Ideas?

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

Find out if it's giving an error:
Open a terminal and type 'evince' and hit enter.

See if it gives an error and post it here if you can't figure the solution out.

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

GLIB WARNING ** default - Failed to create directory home/user/.config/evince: Permission denied

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=26968 (If you installed ROXTerm; I did put out an update that didn't touch the .config folder)

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

huh?

I read the link you included but I couldn't follow a solution...

What are you suggesting I do to solve this?

Sorry

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

#5 in that thread.

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

ok...will take a look again!

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

Sometimes if you (usually accidentally) run a program as root, it will mangle your permissions:

chown -R user.users /home/user/.config/

(I *think* that's the right command, it may be a lowercase -r).

Sorry, it's Greek to me...

Do I need to uninstall to reinstall but pick a different folder to install to?

If so, where would I direct it?

thanks

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

That post is saying that something you installed may have screwed up the permissions on a folder called /home/user/.config/. To see if that's the case, start the terminal, type:
and copy and paste the response into this thread.

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 05:27 .
drwxr-x--- 44 user users 0 Jul 5 22:30 ..
~ $

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

OK, so in that text, the first line (for the folder called ".") refers to the /home/user/.config folder, the "root root" means that it is owned by the root user and in the root group, and the drwxr-xr-x stuff shows that "user" cannot write to it, so this is why evince isn't starting.

Someone else will have to tell you the command to change the permissions back.

Re: Evince installed...doesn't load?
 

Thanks so much for the help so far...

Anyone willing to pick up this ball and run with it?