yum could not parse file?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Fri Apr 4 22:29:10 UTC 2008


On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:44:58 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > I've been seeing this for a while now, anyone have any idea what
> > it is about? (Seems to be harmless):
> > 
> > Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/kde/AdobeReader.desktop': No such file or directory
> > 
> > Every time yum updates firefox or gimp I seem to get this during update
> > or cleanup or both.
> 
> Nothing much to do with yum itself.
> 
> When you install applications that have .desktop files, a post 
> installation script is run as part of the RPM package to update the menu 
> entry when checks for .desktop files under /usr/share/applications. For 
> some reason, it cannot parse the above mentioned file. Take a look and 
> see if you can fix it.

Just like the error says, there is no such file on any of the
systems I've gotten this error from, so I don't know why it is
so hot to parse it :-).




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