Bug#424923: Debian bug followup (Re: bug 424923)

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:09 -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> 	% xdg-mime query filetype Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $?
> 	xdg-mime: no method available for quering MIME type of 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe'
> 	3
> 
> 	# if it matters...
> 	% file Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $?
> 	Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe: symbolic link to `/mnt/c/Program Files/spacemonger/SpaceMonger.exe'
> 	0

Okay, it looks like xdg-mime is just a wrapper for gnomevfs-info, from
the libgnomevfs2-bin package. Can you try again with that?

> 	# command line output
> 	% xdg-open Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $?
> 	method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=:1.5 reply_serial=2
> 	0
> 
> What happened was that 'abiword' started, and attempted to open
> 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe', which makes 'abiword' hang, or at least pause
> longer than I was willing to wait -- hence, 'xkill': result Zombie
> processes, argh.

That's weird. Wine is set to open .exe files, right? (Double check by
right clicking the .exe and selecting "Open With" in Nautilus)

> > There's also a couple of other things you could try;
> > 
> > * See if you have any local customisations made to the mime database
> > in ~/.local/share/mime
> 
> I'm not really sure what to look for.  Attached is an archive of that
> directory -- the file is small, not much in there.

As far as I can see, there's nothing there to cause any problems.

> > * Temporary add a new user to your system and see if you can reproduce
> > this with a fresh setup.
> 
> My Debian system (and X session) is too busy today...  unfortunately my
> current window manager/GUI desktop environment, xfce4, doesn't (so far
> as I know) allow me to start another session as another user.  Under
> KDE it would be easy.  Unless you know of a way around that, I'll take
> a raincheck, and tell you how it goes when this system is less busy...

You could use something like Xephyr or Xnest to launch another session
in a window.

I did find a matching bug in shared-mime-info Bugzilla;
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6320 

I will probably add a short summary of your problem there and ask the
upstream developers if they have any ideas. There's also a workaround
described there, renaming the .exe to .com, maybe you can try that too?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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