Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 05:08:01PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 18:04:05 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I just removed apparmor from one of my systems (I can see no use for
> > it anyway), I still get the error with evince.
> 
> I'm not using Ubuntu 19.04 myself and so can't say whether or not your
> problem is caused by Apparmor, but if you just did "apt-get remove
> apparmor" to remove the package, I'm not sure that operation actually
> disables Apparmor enforcement.
> 
Well, I did "apt purge apparmor" and I also removed two other packages
with apparmor in the name.


> (That is, at least on my Bionic/18.04 system, with a quick look through
> the /var/lib/dpkg/info/apparmor.{pre,post}rm scripts I'm not seeing
> seeing any logic to turn off enforcement during a package-remove
> operation.)
> 
> So, you may still want to look closely in your system log files to see
> if there are any Apparmor access-denied messages, just in case removing
> the package isn't enough to eliminate the evince-profile restriction....
> 
No, nothing logged at all but I'm still getting the Permission Denied.

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Chris Green