[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#426015: digikam: "could not find mime type"; much functionality missing

[Christopher J Peikert]

Package: digikam
Version: 2:0.9.2~beta1-2+b1
Severity: important

Since upgrading to the latest digikam, upon startup it gives a strange error
message in a window:

"could not find mime type application/octet-stream"

then

"no mime types installed"

Afterward, there appears to be no way to edit images: the Color, Enhance,
Decorate, etc menus are empty.  Additionally, the File->Export submenu is
empty (disallowing me from exporting to Flickr, e.g.).

Starting from command line gives these errors:

kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 93, expecting version 94 or higher.
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 93, expecting version 94 or higher.
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 93, expecting version 94 or higher.
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 93, expecting version 94 or higher.
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!

(Last line repeated many times)

kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype KIPI/Plugin not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype Digikam/ImagePlugin not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype Digikam/ImagePlugin not found
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 93, expecting version 94 or higher.
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype KFilePlugin not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype application/octet-stream not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype application/octet-stream not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype Digikam/ImagePlugin not found


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages digikam depends on:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins     4:3.5.7-1        core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a             4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1                 2.2.42-1         Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1                1:2.4.32-1.1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2               1.9-2            The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                   2.5-9            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexif12               0.6.13-6         library to parse EXIF files
ii  libexiv2-0              0.14-1           EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li
ii  libfam0                 2.7.0-12         Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.2.1-6          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070516-1 GCC support library
ii  libgphoto2-2            2.3.1-5          gphoto2 digital camera library
ii  libgphoto2-2-dev        2.3.1-5          gphoto2 digital camera library (de
ii  libgphoto2-port0        2.3.1-5          gphoto2 digital camera port librar
ii  libice6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                0.6.5-1          GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjasper1              1.900.1-3        The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62               6b-13            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkdcraw0              0.1.0-1          Raw picture decoding C++ library (
ii  libkexiv2-1             0.1.5-1+b1       Qt like interface for the libexiv2
ii  libkipi0                0.1.5-2          library for apps that want to use 
ii  liblcms1                1.16-5           Color management library
ii  libltdl3                1.5.22-4         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpcre3                6.7-1            Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-4+b1     Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.3.17-1         SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070516-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                3.8.2-7          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.8-2        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                 2.1.12-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                  1:1.0.1-4        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.1-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3-15       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages digikam recommends:
ii  kdeprint                      4:3.5.7-1  print system for KDE
ii  kipi-plugins                  0.1.3-5    image manipulation/handling plugin
ii  konqueror                     4:3.5.7-1  KDE's advanced file manager, web b

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