CRITICAL **: egg_desktop_entries (ERRORS)

[Adam D]

Vladimir Kerka wrote:
> Robert Wallace wrote:
>>> I was able to fix this problem by running doing the following commands:
>>>
>>> cd /usr/share/applications
>>> sudo update-desktop-database -v
>>>
>>> the last command should generate errors and the desktop entry with the
>>> problem will be the one after the error, edit the desktop file and you
>>> will have some duplicate entries like "[Desktop Entry]" and/or
>>> Encoding.
>>>
>>> After fixing the files you should be able to run the
>>> update-desktop-database command again and all should be fine.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
> 
> Well, I have got dozen thousands entries like this:
> File '/usr/share/applications/gksu.desktop' lacks MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gksuexec.desktop' lacks MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gdmsetup.desktop' lacks MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gstreamer-properties.desktop' lacks
> MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gdmflexiserver.desktop' lacks MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-nettool.desktop' lacks MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/gdmflexiserver-xnest.desktop' lacks
> MimeType key
> File '/usr/share/applications/qt-language-selector.desktop' lacks
> MimeType key
> 
> What am I to do?
> 


Vladimir,

I too have those as well... seeing it is on all my boxes I wonder if it is a normal thing.  A very good question.

-adam