Ticket #191 (new task)
Report bug about Alpine unable to view HTML documents
| Reported by: | tabbott | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | Upstream Utopia |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description (last modified by jdreed) (diff)
Original report from Quentin:
My .mailcap is empty. The only thing that appears to be relevant in my
.pinerc is the line:
url-viewers=/usr/athena/bin/htmlview,
/usr/bin/links
but /usr/bin/links works correctly, and an strace suggests that
/usr/bin/sensible-browser is what's actually being invoked.
The steps to reproduce in my account are:
- look at a message that has an HTML attachment
- Press . to move to the list of message parts
- Select an HTML part
- Press enter
- Answer yes to "View selected Attachment?"
I get a message "VIEWER command launched", but I never actually get an
HTML viewer.
Greg Price reports that he's reproduced this and it is likely an upstream bug; we should confirm that and report it to Debian.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed
- Description modified (diff)
- Milestone set to Upstream Utopia
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by geofft
I ran into this issue a couple days ago on Linerva. What happened was that $DISPLAY was set in my screen session to a no-longer-valid SSH-forwarded X connection, so sensible-browser was launching links -g (as reported by strace). If I ran links -g myself, I got some spew about being unable to open the framebuffer device, and an immediate quit. links by itself works, as does viewing HTML documents when $DISPLAY is unset.
There is a bug somewhere in between the path from sensible-browser to links here, in that links -g does not fall back to nongraphical mode.
