Konqueror Lost File Associations

I just did a clean reinstall of SuSE 10.0 to correct some major problems.
All of those problems have been corrected. However, while I was in the
process of installing the packages and dependencies to use k3b with mp3
files and being able to use various players to play AVI, WMA, and divx
encoded files, Konqueror lost the ability to deal with .rpm and .pdf
files. Konqueror sees these files as Netscape multimedia files. It
tries, unsuccessfully, to open them in real player 10.

The .pdf files can be opened by right clicking the file and using the
open with dialog to select the proper program. I can successfully
install .rpm files using Konsole. The .pdf and .rpm files appear to be
the only file types affected.

I have accomplished my goal of playing all types of media files, and
using mp3s with k3b. However, I need to find a way to correct the file
associations to have .pdf files opened by the appropriate program,
and .rpm files properly recognized by Konqueror.

rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> I just did a clean reinstall of SuSE 10.0 to correct some major
> problems.
> All of those problems have been corrected. However, while I was in
> the process of installing the packages and dependencies to use k3b
> with mp3 files and being able to use various players to play AVI, WMA,
> and divx encoded files, Konqueror lost the ability to deal with .rpm
> and .pdf
> files. Konqueror sees these files as Netscape multimedia files. It
> tries, unsuccessfully, to open them in real player 10.
>
> The .pdf files can be opened by right clicking the file and using the
> open with dialog to select the proper program. I can successfully
> install .rpm files using Konsole. The .pdf and .rpm files appear to
> be the only file types affected.
>
> I have accomplished my goal of playing all types of media files, and
> using mp3s with k3b. However, I need to find a way to correct the
> file associations to have .pdf files opened by the appropriate
> program, and .rpm files properly recognized by Konqueror.

Check in the Settings>Configure Konqueror>File Association menu of
Konqueror + or in Control Centre>KDE Components>File Association, in
application look at pdf and see what is set for the Embeddeg, here I
have KPDF ( kpdf_part ) at the top of the list with Show file in
embedded viewer and Ask to save checked.

There is also x-rpm in that list which has:

KRPMView (krpmview)

and the same boxes checked.


IIRC I had this happen on one machine, and it was down to the netscape
plugin being first in the list for some reason ( long time ago though
so not exactly sure how or why it happened ) I just moved it down the
list.

HTH

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > I just did a clean reinstall of SuSE 10.0 to correct some major
> > problems.
> > All of those problems have been corrected. However, while I was in
> > the process of installing the packages and dependencies to use k3b
> > with mp3 files and being able to use various players to play AVI,
WMA,
> > and divx encoded files, Konqueror lost the ability to deal with .rpm
> > and .pdf
> > files. Konqueror sees these files as Netscape multimedia files. It
> > tries, unsuccessfully, to open them in real player 10.
> >
> > The .pdf files can be opened by right clicking the file and using the
> > open with dialog to select the proper program. I can successfully
> > install .rpm files using Konsole. The .pdf and .rpm files appear to
> > be the only file types affected.
> >
> > I have accomplished my goal of playing all types of media files, and
> > using mp3s with k3b. However, I need to find a way to correct the
> > file associations to have .pdf files opened by the appropriate
> > program, and .rpm files properly recognized by Konqueror.
>
> Check in the Settings>Configure Konqueror>File Association menu of
> Konqueror + or in Control Centre>KDE Components>File Association, in
> application look at pdf and see what is set for the Embeddeg, here I
> have KPDF ( kpdf_part ) at the top of the list with Show file in
> embedded viewer and Ask to save checked.
>
> There is also x-rpm in that list which has:
>
> KRPMView (krpmview)
>
> and the same boxes checked.
>
>
> IIRC I had this happen on one machine, and it was down to the netscape
> plugin being first in the list for some reason ( long time ago though
> so not exactly sure how or why it happened ) I just moved it down the
> list.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>
On the pdf files, nspluginviewer was on the list, but at the bottom. I
removed it. However, I still have the same problem with pdf files. The
rpm files had nothing associated with the nspluginviewer. In addition,
when I try to open these files the normal way, the KDE crash handler
gives me the following:

The application unknown (nspluginviewer) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV).

The backtrace has the following:

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1096617984 (LWP 6305)]

[KCrash handler]
#9 0x08052f56 in _start ()
#10 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#11 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#12 0xbfc62be8 in ?? ()
#13 0x0805000d in _start ()
#14 0x0818e2b8 in ?? ()
#15 0x0818e2b8 in ?? ()
#16 0x4001b954 in ?? ()
#17 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#19 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#20 0xbfc62c08 in ?? ()
#21 0x080530c1 in _start ()
#22 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#23 0xbfc62f60 in ?? ()
#24 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#25 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#26 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#27 0xbfc62ca0 in ?? ()
#28 0xbfc62c38 in ?? ()
#29 0x08053da6 in _start ()
#30 0x0818e240 in ?? ()
#31 0x0818edb0 in ?? ()
#32 0xbfc62f60 in ?? ()
#33 0x403bb4bc in ?? () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkio.so.4
#34 0x400c43fc in ?? () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkio.so.4
#35 0x00e87d96 in ?? ()
#36 0xbfc62cc0 in ?? ()
#37 0x40ff185c in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#38 0x0818e648 in ?? ()
#39 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#40 0xbfc62c78 in ?? ()
#41 0x40b998d9 in QObject::activate_signal ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3

The blank lines indicate "no debugging symbols found."

I have a feeling that my problem is not in Konqueror, but someplace else.
I have no idea where.

> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > I just did a clean reinstall of SuSE 10.0 to correct some major
> > problems.
> > All of those problems have been corrected. However, while I was in
> > the process of installing the packages and dependencies to use k3b
> > with mp3 files and being able to use various players to play AVI,
WMA,
> > and divx encoded files, Konqueror lost the ability to deal with .rpm
> > and .pdf
> > files. Konqueror sees these files as Netscape multimedia files. It
> > tries, unsuccessfully, to open them in real player 10.
> >
> > The .pdf files can be opened by right clicking the file and using the
> > open with dialog to select the proper program. I can successfully
> > install .rpm files using Konsole. The .pdf and .rpm files appear to
> > be the only file types affected.
> >
> > I have accomplished my goal of playing all types of media files, and
> > using mp3s with k3b. However, I need to find a way to correct the
> > file associations to have .pdf files opened by the appropriate
> > program, and .rpm files properly recognized by Konqueror.
>
> Check in the Settings>Configure Konqueror>File Association menu of
> Konqueror + or in Control Centre>KDE Components>File Association, in
> application look at pdf and see what is set for the Embeddeg, here I
> have KPDF ( kpdf_part ) at the top of the list with Show file in
> embedded viewer and Ask to save checked.
>
> There is also x-rpm in that list which has:
>
> KRPMView (krpmview)
>
> and the same boxes checked.
>
>
> IIRC I had this happen on one machine, and it was down to the netscape
> plugin being first in the list for some reason ( long time ago though
> so not exactly sure how or why it happened ) I just moved it down the
> list.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>
I fixed my problem with the .pdf files. Under file associations, I
selected to use settings from the application group. Now .pdf files open
automagically in the pdf reader. However, they retain their netscape
icon.

It appears though that the system believes that .rpm files are audio
files. I'm not sure what settings I need for these.

> > rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
> >
> > > I just did a clean reinstall of SuSE 10.0 to correct some major
> > > problems.
> > > All of those problems have been corrected. However, while I was in
> > > the process of installing the packages and dependencies to use k3b
> > > with mp3 files and being able to use various players to play AVI,
> WMA,
> > > and divx encoded files, Konqueror lost the ability to deal
with .rpm
> > > and .pdf
> > > files. Konqueror sees these files as Netscape multimedia files.
It
> > > tries, unsuccessfully, to open them in real player 10.
> > >
> > > The .pdf files can be opened by right clicking the file and using
the
> > > open with dialog to select the proper program. I can successfully
> > > install .rpm files using Konsole. The .pdf and .rpm files appear
to
> > > be the only file types affected.
> > >
> > > I have accomplished my goal of playing all types of media files,
and
> > > using mp3s with k3b. However, I need to find a way to correct the
> > > file associations to have .pdf files opened by the appropriate
> > > program, and .rpm files properly recognized by Konqueror.
> >
> > Check in the Settings>Configure Konqueror>File Association menu of
> > Konqueror + or in Control Centre>KDE Components>File Association, in
> > application look at pdf and see what is set for the Embeddeg, here I
> > have KPDF ( kpdf_part ) at the top of the list with Show file in
> > embedded viewer and Ask to save checked.
> >
> > There is also x-rpm in that list which has:
> >
> > KRPMView (krpmview)
> >
> > and the same boxes checked.
> >
> >
> > IIRC I had this happen on one machine, and it was down to the
netscape
> > plugin being first in the list for some reason ( long time ago though
> > so not exactly sure how or why it happened ) I just moved it down the
> > list.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> > Twixt hill and high water
> > N. Wales, UK
> > Novell Support Forums SysOp
> >
> I fixed my problem with the .pdf files. Under file associations, I
> selected to use settings from the application group. Now .pdf files
open
> automagically in the pdf reader. However, they retain their netscape
> icon.
>
> It appears though that the system believes that .rpm files are audio
> files. I'm not sure what settings I need for these.


Now I got the .rpm files working correctly. In the properties of the rpm
file I added YaST to the top of the application preference order.
However, in the indoemation bar at the top of the properties screen, the
system thinks that these are x-pn files. I'm not sure what that means.

Both .rpm and .pdf files retain the netscape icon in Konqueror. I'm not
sure how to change this.