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[Eric TF Bat <bat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Examined the particular file further. It is a .cbr file - I misspoke
when I said it was .cbz.  It appears to have a corrupt header.  That
means the real problem is that evince is responding with the wrong error
message - it's saying "I can't open this type of file" when what it
really means is "I can't open this particular file".  A bit like saying
you don't like Australians just because you once met Rupert Murdoch.

To test this more general hypothesis, I created a text file, filled it
with gibberish, and saved it as foo.cbr.  I double-clicked to open it in
evince, and got the same "File type RAR archive (application/x-rar) is
not supported" message.  So it appears that an exception is getting
swallowed and something is making a faulty guess as to the reason.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/894576

Title:
  .cbz files don't open, error message says rar archives not supported

Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Tried to open a .cbz file that works fine on a standard Ubuntu 11.10
  machine.  In Lubuntu I got the message "File type RAR archive
  (application/x-rar) is not supported".  Both rar and unrar are
  installed, so that's obviously the Wrong Thing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: evince 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Nov 25 10:30:25 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - i386 (20101203)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-22 (33 days ago)

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