• Bug#1100763: nautilus: Conflict with old mimeinfo.cache blocks opening

    From Alessio Paonessa@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 12:00:02 2025
    Package: nautilus
    Version: 48~rc-2
    Severity: important
    Tags: d-i
    X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, livmion@hotmail.com, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
    User: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
    Usertags: amd64
    User: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
    Usertags: amd64

    Dear Maintainer,

    I recently installed in my PC Debian Trixie, but I kept my old home directory from Bookworm with all the configuration files.

    With some file formats, for instance CSV, Nautilus showed an inconsistent behavior: files could not be opened, unless I used the <Open with> option. The properties menu as well was unresponsive.

    The solution I found is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=231842 . I erased the mimeinfo.cache file and everything runs perfectly again.

    Could it be useful to implement a similar approach in Nautilus or Calamares in order to avoid this conflict?

    Thank you in advance,

    Best Regards


    Alessio Paonessa


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
    ii bubblewrap 0.11.0-2
    ii desktop-file-utils 0.28-1
    ii eject 2.40.4-5
    ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 48~beta-1
    ii gvfs 1.57.2-1
    ii libadwaita-1-0 1.7~rc-1
    ii libc6 2.41-4
    ii libcairo2 1.18.2-2
    ii libcloudproviders0 0.3.6-1+b1
    ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-2
    ii libgexiv2-2 0.14.3-1+b1
    ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.0-2
    ii libglib2.0-data 2.84.0-2
    ii libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.4.5-2
    ii libgnome-desktop-4-2t64 44.1-2
    ii libgraphene-1.0-0 1.10.8-5
    ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.26.0-1
    ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.26.0-1
    ii libgtk-4-1 4.17.5+ds-3
    ii libnautilus-extension4 48~rc-2
    ii libpango-1.0-0 1.56.1-1
    ii libportal-gtk4-1 0.9.1-1
    ii libportal1 0.9.1-1
    ii libselinux1 3.8-4
    ii libtinysparql-3.0-0 3.8.2-5+b1
    ii libwayland-client0 1.23.1-3
    ii libx11-6 2:1.8.10-2
    ii nautilus-data 48~rc-2
    ii shared-mime-info 2.4-5+b2
    ii tracker-extract [localsearch] 3.8.2-4+b1
    ii xdg-user-dirs-gtk 0.14-1

    Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
    ii gnome-sushi 46.0-2
    ii gvfs-backends 1.57.2-1
    ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin 2.42.12+dfsg-2
    ii librsvg2-common 2.59.90+dfsg-2

    nautilus suggests no packages.

    -- no debconf information

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