Permissions problems in /usr/share/mime cause icons to disappear

[Olafur Arason]

Try using the menu editor to display them again or include the .desktop file
that doesn't show in you email. I get
access("/usr/share/mime/x-directory/normal.xml", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
from nautilus but I think it hasn't got anything to do with this.

Olafur Arason
2006/1/23, Filipe Bonjour <fbonjour at urbanet.ch>:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to report a problem that I had several times when I was running
> Fedora, and I just had it again for the first time with Ubuntu (5.10).
> As I know how to work around it, this is mostly a curiosity...
>
> I use QuickLounge to hold a bunch of launchers on my Gnome Panel. Every
> now and then, the launchers icons simply disappear from the applet. The
> second or third time I got it with Fedora, I decided to investigate and
> noticed that some icons wouldn't work with Nautilus either. So I
> launched Nautilus with strace and discovered that it was unable to read
> files from /usr/share/mime. I logged in as root, ran "find
> /usr/share/mime -type f -exec chmod o+r {} \;" and everything was OK
> again. I could never determine what caused the problem.
>
> The only two things that I can see I did yesterday that could have
> caused the problem today were:
>
> * I deleted by mistake my Nautilus link to "Home" on the desktop (d'oh!).
>   I doubt this is the cause, as my normal user shouldn't have access to
>   /usr/share/mime;
> * I installed a trial version of VMWare 5.5;
> * I used Synaptic for the following modifications:
>     => Installed gcc-3.4-base, cpp-3.4, gcc-3.4, linux-headers-2.6.12-10,
>        linux-headers-2.6.12-10-686 to compile the VMWare kernel modules.
>     => I also had some trouble finding the package with the kernel modules
>        (which were in linux-headers-*), so I installed then uninstalled
>        linux-kernel-headers.
> * And, yes, I installed a new VM in VMWare. As this was done as root,
>   it's conceivable that I broke something...
>
> Could any of this have caused the problem? Has anyone seen this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Filipe
>
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