PDF "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" on Debian Stable.

Xeratul · 07-23-2014, 07:53 AM

Dear Linux Questions,

I encounter the error when I click on the link url of the files under Debian Stable each time I click onto the links.
"Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console"

The video and the twitter page are not started.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}

Here's a link to \href{http://twitter.com/home}{Twitter}.

Here's a link to \href{file.avi}{video avi}.


Here's another link with run to \href{run:file.avi}{video avi}.

\end{document}}

I have tried with epdfview and evince.

Furthermore, xdg-open is already installed on the machine and present.

Code:

$ whereis  xdg-open
xdg-open: /usr/bin/xdg-open /usr/bin/X11/xdg-open /usr/share/man/man1/xdg-open.1.gz

However it works great onto MS Windows XP but not under Debian Linux.

Any helps would be greatly appreciated.

X.

Xeratul · 07-24-2014, 04:36 AM

Hello, Anyone with any ideas?

It would be greatly helpful since I have to give a talk next week, and I would need to show AVI videos while presenting.

Best regards
X.