Bug#582125: epiphany-browser: "Open" action on the download dialog box does not work

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:23:29PM -0400, Jean Privat wrote:
> > Works for me. Could you perhaps run epiphany under strace to see if it
> > is trying to launch evince (or something else) at all?
> 
> OK. It seems it is my fault somewhere.
> 
> In the strace I found
> 
> ---- 8< ----
> access("/", F_OK)                       = 0
> stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/openlogo.pdf", F_OK)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> lstat64("/home/privat/.gnome2/epiphany/downloads/openlogo(7).pdf",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4964, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/openlogo.pdf", 0xffaf7040)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> rename("/home/privat/.gnome2/epiphany/downloads/openlogo(7).pdf",
> "/openlogo.pdf") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> ---- 8< ----
> 
> The file is downloaded (again?!) in a local directory
> /home/privat/.gnome2/epiphany/downloads/openlogo(7).pdf
> Then moved to / (that obviously fails).
> 
> Why the file is moved do /? Hum... Simply because in my preferences,
> the download directory is set to / (I do not remember setting it to /
> since it is stupid but whatever).

I do wonder if there isn't something wrong going on during upgrades,
because I don't remember setting it to / either, and it *is* set to /
here too.

Mike