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#1 2006-01-12 07:27:13

keevn7
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xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

After installing and running xfce4-svn, my mimtypes became screwed up. It is only for me as a user, and it happens in all mime-using programs like ROX, Thunar, and etc. The problem is that every file is read as 'application/oclet-stream'.

Seems like a file in my home directory is to blame, I just have no idea which one. Does anyone have any ideas before I start the big search 'n' purge?

EDIT: Happens outside of Xfce4 as well, so it seems that xfce4-svn added something to a file outside the configuration of Xfce4 that messed it up. Hmm....

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#2 2006-01-12 16:22:09

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

Does it happen as any other user than your own?


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#3 2006-01-12 18:26:31

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

I thought it worked okay for root, but it seems that it is screwed up there too. I suppose this problem is actually outside my home directory.

For the record, I tried reinstalling shared-mime-info with no resolve.

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#4 2006-01-12 19:24:20

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

Well, I think you are wrong to assume that it's xfce4-svn that's causing your problem, since no one else has reported it.


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#5 2006-01-12 21:31:14

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

shadowhand wrote:

Well, I think you are wrong to assume that it's xfce4-svn that's causing your problem, since no one else has reported it.

Perhaps it is not what caused the problem, but after running it my Xfce4 menu no longer lists all of my programs, so I suspect it anyway.

EDIT: Nautilus complains about not being able to find descriptions for mimetypes. Hmm.... =

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#6 2006-01-12 22:15:10

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

Do a 'pacman -Qs mime' and reinstall everything on the list... it sounds like some mime package got messed up somehow... maybe it was xfce4-svn, but it could be something else too.


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#7 2006-01-12 22:23:17

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Re: xfce4-svn screwed up my mimetypes

I found the problem, it is that /usr/share was pulled out of the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable which explains the missing menu entries, but I am not sure which file sets that and would like to fix it the clean way instead of using a profile.d entry or something. Works fine with /usr/share added. Cheers.

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