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kos n00b
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:58 am Post subject: kde4: can't set up file associations |
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Hi
My KDE4 mime associations suddenly vanished, and I can't add them.
For instance I run Code: | keditfiletype video/x-msvideo | and there are no applications in the list.
I hit 'add', point to /usr/bin/mplayer, OK -> it shows 'updating system configuration' and nothing happens.
I see this message in the console:
Code: | kbuildsycoca4 running...
keditfiletype(32495) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "findServiceByDesktopPath: mplayer-11.desktop not found"
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Tried to kill .kde, .kde4 - same thing.
any help appreciated _________________ /KoS |
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TheAbu Apprentice
Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 160 Location: Lyon, France
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Try reemerging kdelibs and startkde, it should do the trick _________________ "Please, forgive my bad English"
Gentoo made me love using my computer again. Thank you to the Gentoo devs and more generally to all the people who makes GNU/Linux possible |
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kos n00b
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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didn't help, still the same behavior _________________ /KoS |
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Indech n00b
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having the same issue, did you ever have any progress in solving the problem? Otherwise I'll probably try reinstalling Gentoo in a bit. |
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pipip n00b
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: |
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i've the same problem ... any solutions yet? |
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kos n00b
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: Mountain View, CA
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AlyM n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'm also having this problem (no file associations and it won't remember any I enter) and been unable to fix it (see another forum topic, 2nd page onwards).
I've not been able to fix it (and this mornings upgrade to 4.2.3 didn't fix it). Though I note that keditfiletype is trying to find e.g. smplayer-2.desktop, which doesn't exist, but smplayer.desktop does exist. And if you rerun kdeditfiletype it tries to find smplayer-3.desktop.
Googling suggests deleting '/var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/ksycoca4' but that doesn't help me (and it may be the same as kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental). |
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kos n00b
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:26 am Post subject: |
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no luck after removing those dirs and upgrading to 4.2.3 as well _________________ /KoS |
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AlyM n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I just managed to fix the problem (for me at least), in a semi-hacky way.
See my comment (#5) on the bug for details. |
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