Re: [kde] "Could not find mime-type"

[Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx>]

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

and check if you have an octet-stream.desktop in one of the directories listed 
by
kde-config --path mime

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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