Hi All,
Don't know if this is fixed or not, but please find below what I had to
do to fix it.
The error I had is the exact same as the one outlined in the bug
description.
I downloaded Java3d in a tar.Z file and everything was fine, I got the
error message when I tried to open it and whenever I tried to open a
.html file from then on. ("Like all of us, its not my fault its
something the computer did")
Anyway, headed for terminal, typed "nautilus-file-management-
properties&"
When the file manager opens, click the 'List Columns' Tab, and check the
'MIME Type' check box, and click closed.
Go to a folder that contains a sample of the type of file you can't
open, (the problem file type I had was '.html'). Its 'Type' was 'html
document', and you should now be able to see it's 'MIME Type'. My 'MIME
type' was 'application/x-extension-html', but when I clicked the
file,its Icon changed from white page to a web-browser icon, its Type
changed to HTML document and its MIME Type changed to text/html. And I
was left with the 'right click to open scenario as outlined above'.
Anyway cut to the chase, after a bit of net-surfing, I found that all
the MIME info is stored in /usr/share/mime/, and in either 'text',
'application', etc sub-folders. But MIME details are also stored in
your home folder under .local/share/mime.
Inside the home directory MIME folder, I found application and packages
folders, and a few other files, one of which was called 'globs' which
contained:
'appllication/x-extension-html:*.html'
In the application folder was a 'x-extension-html.xml' file and in the
packages folder was a file called 'Override.xml'.
So I made a copy of the MIME folder in .local/share/mime, called it
MIME1, deleted the MIME folder and rebooted and it works as per normal
now.
Click a 'html' file and it opens in Firefox.
Don't you just love computers.
Note: this seems like a very fast fix (and it is, should take about 5
minutes to fix), but it took about 6 hours yesterday and about 4 hours
today, with searching and playing around until I found came up with the
details above
Bye for now.
itcrowd
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19101
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