Konqueror "cannot find mime type" errors

[Bogus Zaba]

Bogus Zaba wrote:

> All of a sudden, when I start up KDE (I usually log off with a 
> Konqueror window open) I am getting multiple error messages from 
> "Knotify" which all tell me that :
> "
> Could not find mime type
> application/octet-stream
> "
> Eventually these stop (after OK'ing them all ) and I get  a Konqueror 
> crash.
>
> If I try to re-start Konqueror later during teh KDE session, it starts 
> OK with just one single error as above.
>
> I tried deleting the konqueror directory under home/.kde/share/apps 
> but this seems to have made no difference to the problem.
>
> Anybody know hwo how to fix this?
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OK, fixed it myself - sorry if this was obvious to everybody. Needed to 
add "octet/stream" to the application group in Konqueror / settings / 
file associations. No filetype or application has to be associated. 
Apparently Konq just likes to think that it knows about "octet/stream"s.


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