kde4: can't set up file associations

kos

Hi

My KDE4 mime associations suddenly vanished, and I can't add them.
For instance I run

TheAbu · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

Try reemerging kdelibs and startkde, it should do the trick

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kos · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

didn't help, still the same behavior
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Indech · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 22

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.

pipip · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

i've the same problem ... any solutions yet?

kos · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:11 am Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267793

surprisingly it works for root, but not for the other users
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AlyM · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

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).

kos · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:26 am Post subject:

no luck after removing those dirs and upgrading to 4.2.3 as well
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AlyM · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject:

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.