This is not an issue of the evince program, but the apparmor rules for evince.
Checking by trying this procedure on Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 or 14.04: Be carefull, these modifications will be permanent and survive reboot! 1. Install apparmor-utils. 2. In a terminal check apparmor status with this command: sudo aa-status evince should be in enforce mode. 3. Set evince to complain mode in apparmor with this command: sudo aa-complain evince 4. Try opening a PDF without tailing '.pdf' on a filesystem mounted under /media/… It should proceed without error. You can also save a file from evince without '.pdf' now on an external media. 5. You can undo with this command: sudo aa-enforce evince I do not recommend using step 3 as a workaround for this bug. It is a hint that evince need its apparmor rules to be improved. I will file a separate bug against package evince-common, which contains a profile for apparmor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096837 Title: [apparmor] Evince does not save files to external disks unless I rename them with the .pdf extension To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/1096837/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
