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mutlu_inek

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Registered: 2006-11-18

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[SOLVED] KDE loses application menus and file associations

Just FYI, I ran into a strange problem with Plasma/KDE today. For no apparent reason and seemingly unrelated to updates, KDE failed to read xdg and application entries, resulting in an empty application launcher and it also wasn't able to resolve any file associations.

journalctl included lots of the following errors (dmesg showed nothing):

kbuildsycoca6: "applications.menu"  not found in  QList("/home/$username/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus")
kded5: "applications.menu"  not found in  ("/home/$username/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus")
archbook dolphin: "applications.menu"  not found in  QList("/home/$username/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus")

I remembered seeing something similar a few years back and quickly traced the issue to corrupted mime files.

rm ~/.local/share/mime/packages ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache

solves the issue.

Last edited by mutlu_inek (2024-09-02 14:32:24)