"Could not find mime-type"

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 12:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My CentOS box has developed a puzzling problem.  I have messages from
> > kpanel, kcontrol, konqueror and others - "Could not find mime type
> > application/octet-stream".  The desktop takes a long time to load, and a
> > .png thumbnail on the desktop isn't displaying, but apart from that I
> > don't have much of a clue what has happened.  Nothing seems to appear in
> > messages.
> >
> > It may have started when I added a mime-type in kcontrol, but I have
> > deleted that entry and even rebooted, since ending sessions didn't clear
> > it.  I'm out of ideas on the cause and cure.  Any help, please?
>
> Try running
> kbuildsycoca --noincremental
>
Done

> and check if you have an octet-stream.desktop in one of the directories
> listed by
> kde-config --path mime
>
ls -R /home/anne/.kde/share/mimelnk/ | grep octet-stream.desktop
octet-stream.desktop

Nothing seems to have changed.  What next?

Anne
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