Hi Bill, I think the 'fix' that is from your comment #7 is likely to be the cause of the problem; it's difficult to say for sure without pulling apart all the libraries, but given that it's complaining about a missing cairo_* symbol it does sound like a good explanation. Personally I'd NEVER replace one of the libraries in /usr/lib - at least because it makes it really difficult for us to tell what happened!
If you need to use a different version of a library for a particular program then put it somewhere out of the way and when you run the problematic program set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just for that program - that way it won't affect anything else. So, how to clean up - hmm. Move those files back from the libcairo_orig that you made, and that might be enough. I'd probably forcably try reinstalling the libcairo2; according to http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libcairo2&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all you should probably have version 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2. If there is still a copy of that in /var/cache/apt/archives then doing a dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libcairo2_1.12.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (naming might be slightly different) might do that. Dave -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093946 Title: Evince fails to open PDF files. worked prior to Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade [-WARNING **: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8: undefined symbol: cairo_mesh_pattern_begin_patch] Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Any time I try to view a PDF file, an icon is created in the task bar that says "opening file ...." but the file does not open. No errors are shown and I have not located any messages in any of the logs. This problem affects ALL pdf files, but the files are displayable using "mupdf". According to the following, evince 3.6.0 is installed. apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I have attempted to purge and reinstall evince several times, even to the point of deleting the evince libraries in /usr/lib/ and /usr/share/ and /var/lib/dpkg/info/ The result is always the same. Sometimes after the failure, Ubuntu reports an internal error in evince - which I have told it to send a report to the developers. The report must be very small, as it takes less than a second to do so. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 26 22:25:34 2012 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-01 (55 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1093946/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
