On Wednesday 14 May 2008 12:21, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My CentOS box has developed a puzzling problem. I have messages from > > kpanel, kcontrol, konqueror and others - "Could not find mime type > > application/octet-stream". The desktop takes a long time to load, and a > > .png thumbnail on the desktop isn't displaying, but apart from that I > > don't have much of a clue what has happened. Nothing seems to appear in > > messages. > > > > It may have started when I added a mime-type in kcontrol, but I have > > deleted that entry and even rebooted, since ending sessions didn't clear > > it. I'm out of ideas on the cause and cure. Any help, please? > > Try running > kbuildsycoca --noincremental > Done > and check if you have an octet-stream.desktop in one of the directories > listed by > kde-config --path mime > ls -R /home/anne/.kde/share/mimelnk/ | grep octet-stream.desktop octet-stream.desktop Nothing seems to have changed. What next? Anne ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.