At the first try evince does not start. The second try one second later works: rose@lynx:/home/rose/Txt/projects/ClosePackingOfSpheres/Report(9)$ evince close_packing_of_spheres_article.pdf ** (evince:15515): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-tOTuw7bBQi: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt (evince:15515): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'evince' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'. (Details: serial 187 error_code 10 request_code 130 minor_code 1) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Trace/Breakpoint ausgelöst rose@lynx:/home/rose/Txt/projects/ClosePackingOfSpheres/Report(10)$ evince close_packing_of_spheres_article.pdf ** (evince:15526): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-tOTuw7bBQi: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt ^Z [2]+ Angehalten evince close_packing_of_spheres_article.pdf rose@lynx:/home/rose/Txt/projects/ClosePackingOfSpheres/Report(11)$ bg [2]+ evince close_packing_of_spheres_article.pdf & 'evince' was started at a remote system via ssh. At the remote system there was only a root login at the console. At the local system gnome-desktop-3.8.4 is running.
1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment. 2) Perhaps you should run evince as is explained and get a backtrace.