update-mime-database issue

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue May 15 19:23:22 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:33 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:20:05 -0400, RR (Richard) wrote:
> 
> > > Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
> > 
> > Not a new phenomenon.  I see this in my F17 system, but also in
> > F14... even in F8, so it has been around for a long time.
> 
> F14? If it's reproducible on a machine, it might not be too hard to track
> down the .desktop file that defines such a MIME type.
> Does
> 
>   grep Mime /usr/share/applications/* -R|grep all/
> 
> find anything already (although it doesn't cover all .desktop files)?

The source for this invalid mimetype is most likely an xml file
in /usr/share/mime/packages - those are the sources from which the other
files (like the stuff in /usr/shrae/mime/all/ ) are generated.



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