CentOS - Aug 2008 - CentOS 5.2 - Nautilus - file types are not associated with an action and icons are not displayed

Hi all,

I use CentOS 5.2 as a desktop and the Gnome Nautilus doesn't display 
icons related to the file types and all associated actions ("open
with")
are lost. It is so bad, that the desktop shortcuts are displayed as 
ordinary files "Filesystem.desktop" or 
"openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop", and when I click on them, the 
Nautilus wants to know what it should do with these files.

The problem emerged after I installed the  new kernel 
(2.6.18-92.1.10.el5) and  uninstalled packages "joystick",
"slrn" and
"planner".  All user accounts have the same problem, when I run the 
Nautilus as root (sudo nautilus), it works fine => probably some access 
restrictions.

I run the Nautilus with strace, but the output is too messy to provide 
some sensible information. Any hint what to do is welcomed.

Best  Regards

Vaclav

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Vaclav Mocek <little.owl at email.cz>
wrote:
>
> I use CentOS 5.2 as a desktop and the Gnome Nautilus doesn't display
icons
> related to the file types and all associated actions ("open
with") are lost.
> It is so bad, that the desktop shortcuts are displayed as ordinary files
> "Filesystem.desktop" or
"openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop", and when I click
> on them, the Nautilus wants to know what it should do with these files.
>
> The problem emerged after I installed the  new kernel (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5)
> and  uninstalled packages "joystick", "slrn" and
"planner".  All user
> accounts have the same problem, when I run the Nautilus as root (sudo
> nautilus), it works fine => probably some access restrictions.
>
> I run the Nautilus with strace, but the output is too messy to provide some
> sensible information. Any hint what to do is welcomed.
>
Check the permissions on all files and directories in anything under
/usr that has "gnome" in it.  Chances are something is screwed up
there.

Also, double check your root's umask - it should be 2 (and NOT 22 or
27 or 77) while you're installing.

I ran into something like this a while back when I changed the root
umask to something other than 2, and it really screwed up all my
settings until I changed the permissions and umask back.

HTH

mhr