On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Vaclav Mocek <little.owl at 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