On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Vaclav Mocek little.owl@email.cz wrote:
I use CentOS 5.2 as a desktop and the Gnome Nautilus doesn't display icons related to the file types and all associated actions ("open with") are lost. It is so bad, that the desktop shortcuts are displayed as ordinary files "Filesystem.desktop" or "openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop", and when I click on them, the Nautilus wants to know what it should do with these files.
The problem emerged after I installed the new kernel (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5) and uninstalled packages "joystick", "slrn" and "planner". All user accounts have the same problem, when I run the Nautilus as root (sudo nautilus), it works fine => probably some access restrictions.
I run the Nautilus with strace, but the output is too messy to provide some sensible information. Any hint what to do is welcomed.
Check the permissions on all files and directories in anything under /usr that has "gnome" in it. Chances are something is screwed up there.
Also, double check your root's umask - it should be 2 (and NOT 22 or 27 or 77) while you're installing.
I ran into something like this a while back when I changed the root umask to something other than 2, and it really screwed up all my settings until I changed the permissions and umask back.
HTH
mhr