On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:45 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 06:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> >>> Unfortunately, "I loaded it on my system and it works just
fine,"
> >>> doesn't help much at all.
> >> Possibly because you are both using different spins. If you want to
> >> discuss issues in Fedora 7 test releases it is important to specify
> >> which spin you are using. The behavior is different between them
> >> depending on which applications are included.
> >
> > Good point! I hadn't considered this. Indeed, both of the systems I have
> > were loaded from the Fedora installation DVD as opposed to the live CD.
> > Both also were updated immediately with the Rawhide patches and I
> > installed my usual list of add-ons that I tend to include with previous
> > versions of Fedora. That includes:
> >
> > Adobe Reader (with Remi's patch - it's still apparently needed)
> > Sun Java JRE (a couple of websites I frequent seem to want it in spite
> > of anything else)
> > Flash Plugin
> >
> > Could Sun's Java RPM be causing this? It doesn't on FC6 and I
didn't try
> > on F7T4 before installing it.
>
> Very unlikely. I would suggest not using packages outside the standard
> repository while testing. Some of them create problems that are not
> reversed even when you uninstall them and makes debugging harder.
The Sun Java JRE package *is* the cause of this -- you can, for example,
remove /usr/share/mime/packages/x-java-* (or demote the priorities in
those files) to keep this from happening. The file magic match is
essentially matching any ZIP compressed archive as it's installed out of
the box.
Thanks! That was exactly the problem. Between your and Havard's posts, I
was able to fix this quickly and easily. To summarize:
1) Correct the syntax error (missing the initial '<') on line 35 of the
file /usr/share/mime/packages/x-java-archive.xml
2) Run the command (as root): update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
Hope that helps others looking for a way to fix the problem.
Cheers,
Chris
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