Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día domingo, octubre 20, 2019 a las 09:25:46a. m. +0100, Nuno Silva escribió:
> 
> > On 2019-10-19, José María Mateos wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:17:06 +0100 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > >> Running 'evince ~/.mitt/fred.pdf' displays the PDF file successfully
> > >> but running 'evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf' produces a Permission Denied
> > >> message in a pop-up window.  All directory names I have tried other
> > >> than .mutt allow the PDF file to be read.
> 
> I can't reproduce this on FreeBSD. The OP could run on any Linux (don't
> know if the problem is on Linux):
> 
> strace -o evince.tr -f  evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf
> 
> and look into the file evince.tr which open(2) or stat(2) gives a
> Permission Denied and why. If the OP can't see this, he/she should 
> post this file somewhere.
> 
> 	matthias
> 
I'm running xubuntu 19.04 on both systems which show this bug.  I
don't have evince on any other system at the moment.

I will try the strace and also I may try installing evince on a system
which is running xubuntu 18.04 to see if the bug is there too.

Thanks everyone and listen to this space! :-)

-- 
Chris Green