Bug#258564: nautilus: Nautilus' file type handling is very broken

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:51:16 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> But nautilus doesn't seem to make use of any of that.  If you examine the
> properties of a .pdf file from within nautilus, it says that the type is
> "Unknown type" and the MIME type is "application/octet-stream".

What MIME type is indicated in the output of "gnomevfs-info" on your PDFs?

If it's "application/octet-stream" as well, please try 
	apt-get install --reinstall shared-mime-info
and re-test. Does this make the problem go away?

> Nautilus 2.6.3-2 worked, but downgrading back to that version doesn't
> actually solve this problem, so the actual breakage is somewhere else.

Nautilus, like most GNOME applications that deal with MIME information,
primarily relies on the GNOME-VFS framework, which gets its data from
shared-mime-info.

Ray
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