Description of problem: all my desktop icons display as text files. Double clicking on them opens them in a text editor. Additionally if I create a new launcher I cannot see any icons in the icon list. I tried deleting all my profile information and it still happens, created a new user and it happens to that user. Everything works fine as root. Turned off SELinux ('cause I still don't quite trust it) and it still happens. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. install FC6 Actual results: desktop icons display as text files including newly created launchers Expected results: launchers I can double click on to launch an application!! :-) Additional info: asked about this on Fedora Forum here- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=142622 it seems someone else has had this problem in the past- http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=119702&highlight=text+icons but no solution has been forthcoming to either query :( I've never wanted to revert a version of Fedora, but I am getting tempted with this one!
I colleague at work suggested I try re-installing FC6 from scratch. With a clean install from DVD everything works OK. After I have applied all the updates the desktop is borked again. There were 159 packages to update after the last install so I couldn't be certain which one caused the problem... Am happy to help debug if someone can give me some clues. Cheers Murray
Very strange. Seems like it thinks its the wrong mimetype What does "gnomevfs-info -s <filename>" and "gnomevfs-info <filename>" say?
$ gnomevfs-info -s Desktop/gnumeric.desktop Name : gnumeric.desktop Type : Regular MIME type : text/plain Default app : gnome-gedit.desktop Size : 241 Blocks : 8 I/O block size : 4096 Local : YES SUID : NO SGID : NO Sticky : NO Permissions : 600600 Link count : 1 UID : 500 GID : 500 Access time : Fri Jan 5 23:12:00 2007 Modification time : Sat Jul 8 10:40:49 2006 Change time : Wed Dec 20 23:22:09 2006 Device # : 774 Inode # : 98208 Readable : YES Writable : YES Executable : NO $ gnomevfs-info Desktop/gnumeric.desktop Name : gnumeric.desktop Type : Regular MIME type : application/octet-stream Size : 241 Blocks : 8 I/O block size : 4096 Local : YES SUID : NO SGID : NO Sticky : NO Permissions : 600600 Link count : 1 UID : 500 GID : 500 Access time : Fri Jan 12 09:31:57 2007 Modification time : Sat Jul 8 10:40:49 2006 Change time : Wed Dec 20 23:22:09 2006 Device # : 774 Inode # : 98208 Readable : YES Writable : YES Executable : NO
Very strange. Neighter the extension matching (.desktop) or the sniffing of "[Desktop]" seems to work. Does running "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" as root fix it?
Yep that fixed it- update-mime-database /usr/share/mime *** * Updating MIME database in /usr/share/mime... Wrote 502 strings at 20 - 29bc Wrote aliases at 29bc - 2bb0 Wrote parents at 2bb0 - 35bc Wrote literal globs at 35bc - 3618 Wrote suffix globs at 3618 - 6b80 Wrote full globs at 6b80 - 6ba4 Wrote magic at 6ba4 - c548 Wrote namespace list at c548 - c558 *** Thank-you for your help it was driving me nuts... is there anything I can do to help work out why it broke during the upgrade process? Cheers Murray
Something overwrote /usr/share/mime/mime.cache. It would be nice to figure out what. Can you try "rpm -qf /usr/share/mime/mime.cache" to see if some package owns that file? (none should)
looks OK- $ rpm -qf /usr/share/mime/mime.cache file /usr/share/mime/mime.cache is not owned by any package
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Hi, I've seen this behaviour on both Fedora 7 & Fedora 8 (I'm currently running 8 and waiting for 9 :). Apply the latest updates and the desktop icons turn to text files. It doesn't happen with every update but it's happened often enough that I saved a copy of the command to fix it (update-mime-database /usr/share/mime) after coming looking for the bug to get the fix the first couple of times. Next time it occurs I'll update the bug again. Cheers Murray
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