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Mr Green

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

removing mime.cache works for me too....

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emphire

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Registered: 2007-03-21

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Please consider filing a bug report.

Bug-Report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10734

Ink-Jet

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Registered: 2008-03-27

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

+1 for removing mime cache, fixed my problem.

jcci

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From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Removing the cache really solves the prolem as long as Nautilus is used. With PCmanfm you have to define the matching application one by one and PCmanfm won't remember any preference.
So it is too early to close this thread.

Last edited by jcci (2008-06-24 10:59:56)

mrunion

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Using Nautilus and removing mime cache fixed mine as well.  If PCmanfm does differently I cannot test as I don't use it.  Just my $0.02 US currency.

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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Anything new on the issue? I am using pcmanfm too - I deleted mime-types, shared-mime-info, even pcmanfm and all the config files I could find. Yet after reinstallation nothing changed.

stojic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 51

Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Anything new on the issue? I am using pcmanfm too - I deleted mime-types, shared-mime-info, even pcmanfm and all the config files I could find. Yet after reinstallation nothing changed.

There was some talk about downgrading shared-mime-info in Arch to version 0.3 (see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10734). I tested 0.3 a bit and it worked fine. For now there seems to be no solution for pcmanfm users aside from not upgrading shared-mime-info (I'm still using 0.23).

jcci

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From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Downgrading works definitely. The version is 0.23. Please mail me if you should need the file. Hopefully a clean solution will be there soon.

Warper

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From: Quito, Ecuador

Registered: 2008-04-08

Posts: 47

Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

I had the same problem, fixed it by removing mime.cache in home dir:

rm $HOME/.local/share/mime/mime.cache

I also reinstalled mime-types while trying to fix it, as in post #3 (that didn't fix evince, but it did fix /etc/mime.types which lacked newlines).

EDIT: Removing mime.cache only fixed problem with evince not opening .pdf files, pcmanfm still shows wrong file types. Downgrading shared-mime-info fixes that here too.

Removing mime.cache worked for me, thanks.
I didn't have any mime.types installed before so I uninstalled it.

fukawi2

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

EDIT: This did work, just took a few minutes to take effect
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Before I add more info to the bug report, do I need to restart Nautilus for the fix to work?

I've tried this:

pacman -Rn mime-types shared-mime-info ; sudo pacman -S mime-types
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/shared-mime-info-0.23-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
rm $HOME/.local/share/mime/mime.cache
update-mime-database -V /usr/share/mime

The last command threw some errors: http://pastebin.com/mc8b691

I still can't open PNG, JPEG, ODT etc files by double-clicking them

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-06-25 06:08:59)

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joephantom

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Removing ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache solved the problem for me (no downgrading was necessary)

+1. I did the same and then: pacman -Syu and everything works just fine.

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PierreAd

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Removing ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache solved the problem for me (no downgrading was necessary)

+1. I did the same and then: pacman -Syu and everything works just fine.

Thanks a lot, it perfectly worked for me too (using nautilus)

Lyceuhns

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From: João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil

Registered: 2008-05-09

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

I downgraded the package shared-mime-info to version 0.23 and mimes are back. The new version (0.40) got problems

I did this, and more...
added this line to the pacman.conf:
IgnorePkg     = shared-mime-info

Now i do a -Syu without problems.

quad3d@work

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2006-12-29

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

PekWM+pcmanfm here.

I had to remove /usr/share/mime/application/x-cdrdao-toc.xml and -Suy worked.

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

@quad3d@work

it is not a question of pacman upgrade does not work. it is about the mime tpyes, which are fucked up after upgrading to the latest version of shared-mime-info.

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Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Thanks secretfox!!!

pcmanfm with openbox here and downgrading was the only way to do it.

Perre

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

I downgraded the package shared-mime-info to version 0.23 and mimes are back. The new version (0.40) got problems

I did this, and more...
added this line to the pacman.conf:
IgnorePkg     = shared-mime-info

Now i do a -Syu without problems.

I can't get IgnorePkg to work.
Where am I supposed to add the line in pacman.conf? If I put it close to the beginning the command is ignored, but if I put it close to the end I get:

error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 66: directive 'IgnorePkg' not recognized.

What am I doing wrong here? (OT I know )

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

@Perre

that is where i have got it and it works.

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman manpage for option directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
IgnorePkg   = shared-mime-info
<...>

Last edited by hcjl (2008-06-26 18:00:42)

Perre

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

@Perre

that is where i have got it and it works.

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman manpage for option directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
IgnorePkg   = shared-mime-info
<...>

Thanks man, that did it!
I really like how Pacman warns me that it ignores a package upgrade. Makes it easy to remember to upgrade later when the bug is fixed.

B-Con

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Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Thanks for the help above guys.

Removing the mime.cache file fixed it for Gnome for me, and downgrading shared-mime fixed it for PCManFM for me.

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benton

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Registered: 2008-06-20

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Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

Downgrading worked for me. These are the original files for shared-mime-inf 0.23:

PKGBUILD

# $Id: PKGBUILD 356 2008-04-18 22:56:27Z aaron $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>

pkgname=shared-mime-info
pkgver=0.23
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Freedesktop.org Shared MIME Info"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL')
depends=('libxml2' 'glib2')
makedepends=('perlxml' 'pkgconfig')
install=shared-mime-info.install
url="http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info"
source=(http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('3120a720f6a94881614b533f37a7671f')

build() {
  cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
  rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/mime/mime.cache
}

shared-mime-info.install

post_install() {
  update-mime-database /usr/share/mime > /dev/null 2>&1
}

post_upgrade() {
  post_install $1
}

op=$1
shift

$op $*

Thanks! I just copied these two files to an empty dir and issued:

makepkg -g
makepkg
pacman -U shared-mime-info-0.23-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz (as root)

And it worked! If an inexperienced linux user like me could do this so easily then anyone can do it!   Thanks to everyone!

Last edited by benton (2008-06-28 13:31:34)

biloky

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 61

Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

PCManFM 0.4.5 is out...

Changes:
* Support new shared-mime-info 0.40.
* Adjust UI of preference dialog
* Some minor fixes.

stojic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 51

Re: Mime Types Gone After System Update

PCManFM 0.4.5 is out...

Thanks for info, it indeed works with shared-mime-info 0.40