On Feb 20, 10:50 am, Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > mond wrote: > >> On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote: > >>>> Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > >>> That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about > >>> .desktop "viruses". However, shouldn't gnome fallback to file magic > >>> test if extension test fails? > > >> yes. That, for sure, will avoid some viruses. But the thing is that > >> file magic test is gone on my gnome. I believe a dist-upgrade removed > >> some gnome component which perform magic test. I just can recall the > >> name now. > > >> Recent dist-upgrade wanted to remove a lot of gnome component. Of > >> cause I did not upgrade. The problem happened right after lenny's > >> release. If I can track my update history, I may figure out a way to > >> solve it. > > > I am facing a similar problem with Gnome - recently my desktop icons > > all changed to generic looking icons and they now fail to run the > > program they are supposed to represent. I've been told it is probably > > the result of the current upgrade after the release of Lenny. > > I fixed my icon problem (which was mime-related apparently) by > downgrading shared-mime-info to the version in Lenny (I run Sid). > > Now all I have to do is figure out the aptitude command to keep it there > for a while :) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkme3SIACgkQnQV1aTcQlJuAwQCeLRTsm3WnfmChDup5N7ZrtASx > kZ0An12s7krWh7EiRXPnjxlG1iPNkC27 > =E5bW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Great. It must be shared-mime-info problem. I don't want to downgrade since it doesn't matter very much anyway. Thank you for your information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
