Description of problem: Postinstall script for shared-mime-info-0.19-5.el5 is umask dependent. If umask is 077, then /usr/share/mime/{aliases,globs,magic} etc. get 0600 permissions --> problems when regular users (for example evince complains about unhandled mime types). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shared-mime-info-0.19-5.el5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. set root's umask to 077 2. run update-mime-database /usr/share/mime 3. (or update/install shared-mime-info). Actual results: # ls -la /usr/share/mime/{aliases,globs,magic} -rw------- 1 root root 2419 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/aliases -rw------- 1 root root 13661 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/globs -rw------- 1 root root 11849 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/magic Expected results: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2419 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13661 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/globs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11849 Jul 2 13:50 /usr/share/mime/magic Additional info: shared-mime-info postinstall script (or update-mime-database program) should set umask to 022 before updating files.
See also bug 195414 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83006 ***