Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168051
Nautilus lost file type associations, thumbnails & icons
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Nautilus seems to be broken all of a sudden. The problem is solved once FC4 is reinstall, but happened again later. Problems related are: 1) lost the ability to correctly determine the type of a file and associate it with its correct icon. 2) thumbnail function failed when new images are added to Desktop (either by drag n' drop, import from dig camera), even set from Preformances -> Preview. 3) Filesystem/CDROM-DVD drive/Floppy drive/Network icons from Computer lost its icons and display a "Couldn't display ..... The location is not a folder" error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.10.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: unknown, the problem occurs all of a sudden. Additional info: This problem happened to more than one user: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=76248 (which has a screenshot of the problematic desktop)
Same problem here. An gthumb/eog cannot open image files anymore. Did anyone gather some new information on this or even came up with a fix? I wouldn't care about Nautilus but I'd really like to view my photos...
I get the same problem, when clicking on the Computer icon on the GNOME desktop, it shows Filesystem.desktop, Network.desktop with a generic "link" icon rather than just "Filesystem", "Network" with the appropriate icons. When clicking on Filesystem, instead of displaying the icons it produces an error dialog: Couldn't display "computer:///Filesystem.desktop" The location is not a folder Even if I create a completely new user with a fresh desktop, the problem remains.
I think I tracked this down to an errant package in review for Fedora Extras that I built from an SRPM which overwrote some of /usr/share/mime. To fix this, I removed the package in question, logged out of X (back to GDM) and then logged into a virtual terminal as root and ran: update-mime-database /usr/share/mime then update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications for good measure. Not sure which one fixed it, but I suspect the update-mime-database (sorry I didn't do it as scientifically as I should have, I was trying anything to get my desktop back!) Upon logging back into an account the file types and icons appeared once more.
OK, reinstalled the faulty package, and the problem manifested itself again. A simple run of: sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime fixed it without needing to logout or restart GNOME.
Confirmed the above comment fixed the problem.
Closing this then. The package should be fixed to not overwrite the mime db.
Is this also the case! Nautilus render all mime types correctly for all ooo-documents after a update. If i select some of the ooo-types it change to type application/x-java-archive and also the default action. I can't change this behaivour anywhere.(In reply to comment #6) > Closing this then. The package should be fixed to not overwrite the mime db. >