Opening files in OO 2.0.1

jserink · Veteran Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 1008

Emerged openoffice 2.01 with nbo problems, when I try to open a files in ANY of the applications I get the following warning in a dialog:
"COuld not find mime type
application/octet-stream"

When this dialog is up, my mouse does not work, I must press enter or hit the tab bar. WHen I do that, I get another dialog box:
"No MIME TYpes INstalled"

Again, mouse still doesn't work until I press enter, after that everything returns to normal and the file open dialog appears.

Anyone know:
1. what this error is about,
2. How to get rid of it?

Cheers,
John

Kurt Steiner · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:37 am Post subject:

Try to recompile kdelibs - it should help.

jserink · Veteran Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 1008

mlebek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 125

i think the problem are the missing mime types for opendocuments. they are not installed in my kde 3.3. i imported them manually in /kde/share/mimelnk/application/ and in /kde/share/mimelnk/magic but the error message remains.

mlebek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 125

i recompiled kdelibs, same error.

On openoffice.org someone gave me the following advise:
You may need to run the installation files, including desktop-integration again, possibly with the additional switches --replacepkgs and --replacefiles.

How can i do this in gentoo ?

(yesterday i installed OO 2.0.2, same error message)

mlebek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 125

i changed the following entry in OO2 preferences: open/safe: 'use OpenOffice dialogs' (??) to get rid of this error message:

(in german version: Extras/Optionen/OpenOffice.org/Allgemein:
Oeffnen/Speichern-Dialoge: OpenOffice.org Dialoge verwenden)

mlebek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 125

and an

mlebek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 125

after the oo2 installation v2.0.2 [hard masked] i had the following new mime types in /etc/mime.types:

Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject:

Well, I got the same error after upgrading to KDE 3.5.

After trying the possible solutions in this thread and in other threads ('emerge mime-types') without luck, I found out, that I forgot to change in

/etc/rc.conf

the XSESSION-variable to

imsdunn · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 19

I had the same problem

nadamsieee · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:23 am Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140979

I have:

un

But I can't reproduce the bug. :?:

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eis · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject:

hm...

I am having this same silly issue.

right now I am remerging your kdelibs, and I also emerged the simple and very small "mime-types" (which didn't help of course).

then I will do a reboot and then lets see.

But there is a little issue.
My KDE Kontrollcenter says, I am using KDE 3.4.3. portage says 3.5.2 is the latest installed. what's that?

thx, Ice

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

I have exactly the same problem as eis. My KDE Control center says kde 3.4.3 and portage says 3.5.
I also experience the "Could not find mime type application/octet-stream" when I try to save a document in OO.
I recently had my system upgraded with emerge -uDp world.

What would be the correct action to solve the root casue of this problem?
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eis · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject:

Hm..

since nobody seems to answer this question, we appear either very stupid or it is just an error of contemporary KDE... But I can live with these MIME TYPE ERRORS for now.

And besides re-emerging kde-libs and openoffice I dont know what to do. But I doubt that remerging openoffice helps so don't do it. Oh, and if zou want to not solve the problem but work around it, do:

"The workaround for this is to:
Select the Tools menu, then Options->General. check the box Use OpenOffice
dialogs (located under the Open/Save Dialogs)."

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But whats that about the VERSION of KDE??

have a good one,

eis

Modula · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 9

eis · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

definitely makes sense!

I will double check..

eis · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Ahhhhh!

KDE Kontrollcenter says:

KDE Version 3.4.3

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/etc/rc.conf says:
# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps

XSESSION="kde-3.5.2"

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so now?

gr, eis

FantomKnight · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks for the tip. Checking the "OpenOffice dialogs" checbox allows me to save my documents again. I don't know how this broke. I haven't updated my system recently or installed anything new that I can think of. I am running KDE 3.4, and my XSESSION line in /etc/rc.conf is commented out. I did look at all of my installed KDE packages. Everything was 3.4 except for kdelibs, which is 3.5.2-r6. I have no idea how that got a later version than everything else.
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eis · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject:

OK> The simple and ridiculous answer to MY KDE Version problem above WAS:

I set the right version in rc.config and my system was up to date, BUT I FORGOT TO SET VERSION 3.5 IN THE LOGIN MANAGER.

that was a little dum...

eis