kde4: can't set up file associations

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kos · Post by **kos** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:58 am

Hi

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

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:

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kbuildsycoca4 running...
keditfiletype(32495) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "findServiceByDesktopPath: mplayer-11.desktop not found"

Tried to kill .kde, .kde4 - same thing.

any help appreciated

TheAbu · Post by **TheAbu** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:29 pm

Try reemerging kdelibs and startkde, it should do the trick

kos · Post by **kos** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:59 pm

didn't help, still the same behavior

Indech · Post by **Indech** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:25 pm

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 · Post by **pipip** » Sun May 03, 2009 11:25 am

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

kos · Post by **kos** » Mon May 04, 2009 2:11 am

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

surprisingly it works for root, but not for the other users

AlyM · Post by **AlyM** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:20 pm

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 · Post by **kos** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:26 am

no luck after removing those dirs and upgrading to 4.2.3 as well

AlyM · Post by **AlyM** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:55 pm

I just managed to fix the problem (for me at least), in a semi-hacky way.

See my comment (#5) on [bug=267793]the bug[/bug] for details.