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Albi

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Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 10

Well the last update messed plenty up

I've had a full system upgrade with testing enabled that wasn't as troublesome.

First of all, firefox wouldnt start because it complained about not being able to find application.ini. After finding no solution to this problem, I simply removed the package, downloaded it from mozilla's site, and set /usr/bin/firefox to run the firefox in the extracted folder.

Now Nautilus has completely lost all file associations and is trying to open EVERYTHING in gedit. I have no choice but to manually teach it how to open everything again because I have NO idea what the hell went wrong.

Also the image viewer seems to have lost the ability to browse pictures in a folder. I open an image and the next and forward buttons are grayed out, I have to drag open to get any browse functionality out of it, which sucks.

This is just me playing around the computer for 10 minutes. I'm going to bed now, I'm sure a lot more things will be messed up in the morning. Everything was working perfectly fine before too I don't know why the last update was so buggy.

the_glu

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Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 35

Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

Same problem for application.ini.

amokkk

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From: PL

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 51

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Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=384949

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Albi

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Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 10

Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=384949

Thanks, I didn't know what to search for (tried nautilus filetypes) so I couldn't find this, but it solved the problem of nautilus and the image viewer.

As for firefox, I only get a few relevant google results and one result on the forums when I search "firefox application.ini". I guess not too many people have gotten this problem before. My way works for now, I guess it's a bug and will be fixed eventually.

Toffeeapple

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From: North Wales

Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 10

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Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

hi Albi,

I had your application.ini problem this morning, it went away after I removed Firefox (pacman -S) and then deleted all referance to firefox & mozilla in my home folder, then when i reinstalled firefox everything was ok.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

hi Albi,

I had your application.ini problem this morning, it went away after I removed Firefox (pacman -S) and then deleted all referance to firefox & mozilla in my home folder, then when i reinstalled firefox everything was ok.

Its not Pacman -S, to remove a package in pacman you use this command

pacman -Rs

to learn how to use pacman.

man pacman

Last edited by jacko (2008-06-23 20:53:01)

Toffeeapple

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From: North Wales

Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 10

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Re: Well the last update messed plenty up

sorry.

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