MHR wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi, thanks a lot, the problem was solved - there is necessary to reinstall the package shared-mime-info rpm -ivh --force shared-mime-info-0.19-5.el5.i386.rpm and after that it works fine again. It was a problem of Fedora Core 6 - the time from the time it was broken after an update and it seems that CentOS has the same problem as well. Before I sent my mail, I checked the integrity of the package shared-mime-info and time stamps of its files, and everything was OK. I still don't know the real reason, however it works. Best Regards Vaclav