Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: shared-mime-info
On today's Karmic Beta, I am unable to open .pdf files. Evince complains
that "File type unknown (application/octet-stream) is not supported".
Evince bug #187225 says that this is a shared-mime-info problem, which
is why I'm reporting it here. That bug was closed after the reporter
discovered a workaround, but it is still a bug that prevents an
important use of the operating system for a very unintuitive reason.
The workaround is to delete ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache, and that
worked for me as well. Perhaps an upgrade script for shared-mime-info
should do that.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 03:47:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: shared-mime-info 0.70-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SourcePackage: shared-mime-info
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
** Affects: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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mime.cache makes .pdf files show up as "application/octet-stream"; won't open
in Evince
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445231
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