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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-11-21 22:43:11
that's one of those things that's so freaking obvious in hindsight ;-)
on the other hand, if this problem is well known (as seems obvious from the arch forums etc, and from the quick patch to pcmanfm's source), why is it taking so long for this patch to hit ubuntu?
#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-29 16:19:11
Thanks, qi... re-adding the jaunty repos, and then forcing shared-mime-info 0.60-1 solved the problem. Looks like pcmanfm's source has already been fixed to work with 0.70, so we just need to wait for it to get merged into the karmic repos.
Thanks very much :-)
#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-19 08:53:36
ah, i should have mentioned that was one of the first things i tried. it says absolutely nothing, and there's no "-v" option :-(
In a couple weeks I'm getting a new laptop hard drive. The plan had been just to dd one to the other, but it's seeming easier now just to do a clean install... If you guys have any more ideas, i'd be grateful, but no stress.
#4 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-18 08:57:09
I have no ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache , but i did find /usr/share/mime/mime.cache : removing it changed nothing.
Removing ~/.config/pcmanfm also didn't get it working again
Many thanks for the ideas so far.... any others?
#5 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-18 00:04:10
thanks for the reply... i was unaware that pcmanfm used mime types as a file typing method. does it?
shared-mime-info, gnome-mime-data and mime-support were already installed, a reinstall changed nothing.
libfile-mimeinfo-perl was not installed, but installing did nothing.
thanks again for trying, but no dice.
any other ideas would be appreciated!
cheers
PS. I've read a couple #! threads implying that people are upgrading to 9.10... does this mean i shouldn't have been worried in the first place? does upgrading the system before crunchbang's updates come out generally cause no problems? if so, there has to be something wonky going on somewhere....
#6 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-17 16:37:33
Hi,
thanks for the reply. I just tried nautilus, and it works in nautilus. Still no dice for pcmanfm, though.
any other ideas?
cheers
#7 Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] file associations lost (and un-settable) after system update » 2009-10-16 10:30:43
- storkk
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Hi, all
After installing crunchbang a couple months ago for the first time, i had to switch to the karmic ubuntu repos to install the new versions of pfstmo and pfstools, but was always careful not to update much of the system, in order to keep in sync with crunchbang's modifications.
Yesterday in synaptic, i unthinkingly installed all updates as well as doing a system-update --upgrade :-(. After kicking myself repeatedly, the system seems to be going fine (well, usplash dies, but that's no big deal for now) but all my file associations are lost, and i cannot set them.
Text files still open in my default text editor, but pcmanfm does not recognize anything else. file recognizes them fine from a terminal, but they are unrecognized by pcmanfm: the little icon for a binary (executable) file shows up for all files that are chmod'ed executable but no thumbnail for jpgs (i've checked the thumbnail settings for pcmanfm), and everything else has a text icon, including avi videos.
Selecting "open with" from the context menu on an "executable" file will give me a check-box for "set selected application for default action", but it doesn't do as advertised. opening any non-executable will give me the same dialog, but without the check-box, and it also doesn't remember.
GPicView has a setting to set it as the default viewer for images, but it doesn't work either.
Is there some crunchbang-specific config file i mangled?
I've tried re-installing pcmanfm, file, and a host of other things, but to no avail. I doubted that update-alternatives would help, and it didn't: but i have tried that too.
It's not mission-critical (though it is quite annoying), but any help would be greatly appreciated!
Version information:
Installed crunchbang 9.04.01 lite edition (64-bit)
using ubuntu karmic repos
uname -a: Linux pcii-sys76 2.6.31-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 03:42:30 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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