On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:06 -0800, Ryan James wrote: > after updates from the 4th or the 5th, my applications > menu has been > empty. running update-desktop-database parses through all > the .desktop > files but says "lacks mimetype key" for each one: > > [root localhost ~]# update-desktop-database -v > Search path is now: > [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/applications] > File '/usr/local/share/applications/marlin.desktop' lacks > MimeType key > File '/usr/local/share/applications/gnome-mud.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/xfce-panel-settings.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/redhat-evolution.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File > '/usr/share/applications/gnome-default-applications.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File > '/usr/share/applications/gnome-session-properties.desktop' > lacks MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-devhelp.desktop' lacks > MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-dasher.desktop' lacks > MimeType key > File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-bug-buddy.desktop' > lacks MimeType > key > > etc. > > anyone else seeing this? i'm not sure where to put a > bugzilla entry. > > ***sorry for the second send, i just noticed that it ended > up RE: some other topic in the archives for some reason. > > -ryan > Just to let you know "me too". Ive been waiting for the fix for a few days (this happened before, but was fixed within a say or two that time. I don't know if everyone is affected, but there has been someone on he list claiming to have some new menus working. You might put a bugzilla on the redhat-menus package, though it is likely another package causing the problem. (I notice that there is a missing mime types message in certain places). Scott -- Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Voltaire