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aris002

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-03-21

Posts: 75

kbuildsycoca mimetype errors: KDE or Arch problem? And how to fix?

Hi,
I'm running out of hdd space because of kbuildsycoca mimetype/servicetype in .xsession-errors
I know I can delete those files but I want to monitor the other errors.
So, I've lost my patience and started entering them hand...
Nevertheless,  a few questions remain:
1. After 2 days reading materials on the net I still can't understand who is resposible for them: KDE or distro?
2. Does anyone know an automated way to fix those mimetypes (preferably for all users)?
3. Or at least how to fix by hand types like 'KPovModeler/Document'?
4. Where to find info for the correct values?
5. Is it true that some/all of those errors should be fixed "automagically" if correct 'application/octet-stream' is present (I entered it but with no values)?
6. ...Or have I just messed up something with installations (I'm using KDE 3.5.6)?

Thanks in advance.

aris002

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-03-21

Posts: 75

Re: kbuildsycoca mimetype errors: KDE or Arch problem? And how to fix?

1... partial answer, I guess,  is that Arch supplies something useful for the mimetypes https://www.archlinux.org/packages/files/509/... (by installing

pacman -S shared-mime-info

, which I had done)
2, 3 and the above supplied things like:

usr/share/mime/application/x-kpovmodeler.xml

Then, if applying knowledge from this topic http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32007, I should have had in my

~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

something more useful than

[Default Applications]
text/plain=mousepad.desktop

???
And, if comparing to Fedora Core 6, also quite rich this one:

usr/share/applications/defaults.list

but the latter had been absent on my Arch... Should it be? But, after copying it, kbuildsycoca  is still very unhappy and produces long lists

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

doesn't change sycoca's mood, nor

update-desktop-database

No errors, but no positive result, either.

pacman -R kde gnome xorg

etc. Deleting - backing .config , .kde etc. - same effect.

Any hints, folks? Nobody else have kbuildsycoca errors?

Btw,. I guess, every Knoppix has...

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: kbuildsycoca mimetype errors: KDE or Arch problem? And how to fix?

I get 152 "kbuildsycoca: WARNING" messages in the ~/.xsession-errors file at each KDE startup, about "undefined mimetype/servicetype".
They concern principally :
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop (16 messages)
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mplayer.desktop (83 messages)
/usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop (29 messages)

But these messages are just warnings, so I don't bother about them.

These messages mean that the line "MimeType=<list>" in the .desktop file contains mimetypes undefined in KDE.

But it's not important for me, I don't want to create all these mimetypes manually.
I could suppress the missing mimetypes in the line "MimeType=<list>", but the warnings messages don't bother me, I know they are not serious messages.

Last edited by berbae (2007-04-20 09:24:52)