+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #235564 +++ Version: (using KDE 4.4.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Here is the problem: # update-desktop-database [...] Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/kfontview.desktop": "fonts/package" is an invalid MIME type ("fonts" is an unregistered media type)
Seems update-mime-database also dislikes anything commented as "fake" types in kde.xml $ sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package'
Please review/test, http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/6111/
Fixed in trunk/ with commit r1208194
This issue is still present in KDE 4.8.4 from Debian (kdelibs5-data 4:4.8.4-3), see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469833#60 # update-mime-database /usr/share/mime Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' Also other distros have open bugs about it. Could you please check if the commit did land in the releases?
Actually the commit r1208194 you mention did only fix the "fonts/package" mimetype, but none of the other fake mimetypes shown in me previous comment. KDE should either not use these fake mimetypes or the mime tools/standards should be adapted to cope with them. :-)
Hello Christopher, Rex, *, this bug still exists in KDE 4.8 under Debian Testing AMD64 ... :( Could someone fix this bug, please? If I use <quote> update-mime-database /usr/share/mime </quote> I get the message <quote> Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-alchemy' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cache' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-ascii' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-binary' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-table' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdxml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-chem3d' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cif' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-daylight-smiles' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-dmol' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-output' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-log' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-genbank' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gulp' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-hin' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi-xml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-jcamp-dx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-macromodel-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-molfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rdfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rxnfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-sdfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-tgf' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mmcif' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mol2' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-graph' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-out' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-car' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-hessian' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-mdf' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-msi' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-binary' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-xml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-pdb' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-shelx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-vmd' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-xyz' Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' </quote> Using DuckDuckGo, I found out, that nearly every existing distribution has one or more bugs reported to this output ... :( Is it possible to reopen this bug and fix it, please? Sorry for the inconvenience Thomas.
Those "chemical" types are not added by KDE.
chemical/* are not from kdelibs, but uri/* and all/* are. Still here on 4.13 (!).
This bug is definitely WRONG marked as RESOLVED FIXED ! I found this after having enough of "Unknown media type in type ..." and googled out that every major distro has pending bugreports for this and all blame KDE devs for kde.xml content being not conform with MIME standard and waiting for their resolution to incorporate into distros. I did not dig deep into the standards but definitely this is something that is not yet resolved for sure and some action would be well appreciated by many. I can confirm the problem still exists in the updated (as of today) Debian testing distro: Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' and all of the above mimetypes are present in the file usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 303627 ***