Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory

[nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt]

On 2019-10-21, Chris Green wrote:

> 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.

If you did not reboot, apparmor might still be running, try stopping the
"apparmor" service, see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor#Disable_AppArmor_framework

-- 
Nuno Silva