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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to desktop-file-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768271 Title: sudo update-desktop-database results in "font/ttf" is an invalid MIME type ("font" is an unregistered media type) Status in desktop-file-utils package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in desktop-file-utils source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in desktop-file-utils source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: * Impact The "update-desktop-database" command outputs some "invalid MIME type" warnings * Test case - install gnome-font-viewer if it's not installed - $ sudo update-desktop-database you should not get warnings like those Error in file "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.font-viewer.desktop": "font/ttf" is an invalid MIME type ("font" is an unregistered media type) Error in file "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.font-viewer.desktop": "font/otf" is an invalid MIME type ("font" is an unregistered media type) * Regression potential Check that fonts files can still be opened from nautilus and preview (browse e.g /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts in nautilus and open a file from there) ------------------------------------------------------ I think this is the same bug as this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564650 Other info: 1. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 2. $ apt-cache policy desktop-file-utils desktop-file-utils: Installed: 0.23-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 0.23-1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 0.23-1ubuntu3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3. Expected `sudo update-desktop-database` to not return an error 4. Error regarding invalid MIME type (see above) was returned. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: desktop-file-utils 0.23-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue May 1 11:11:05 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-29 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: desktop-file-utils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/1768271/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp