On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:24 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I think I'm asking the wrong questions here. > <snip/> > > As for the app behavior problem, I think it is a permissions problem > on some configuration file somewhere, only I don't know what or where. > If I run as root, everything works fine. It's only as a normal user > that I get problems, so I'm wondering, where the settings are kept for > gnome apps, particularly nautilus, since that seems to be the #1 place > where I run into trouble. i seem to be hit with amnesia. Would you please elaborate on "app behaviour problem" ? > > ( I had my root umask set to 027 for a while for security reasons, but > there are better reasons not to, and this may have screwed up a fair > number of my updates. I have fixed this so that it is only set to 027 > when I am running interactively and 022 when running rpm or yum, or > non-interactively. ) I assume the pdf issue is reproducible only for a regular user, and not root user ? If otherwise, this may be a bug with gnome-vfs. Try running update below as root to update mime db. mime is used to handle file associations. update-mime-database -V /usr/share/mime/ > > Thanks. > > mhr -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Desktop LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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