Bug 85799

Summary:	shared-mime-info: Incorrect mime entry for application/x-shellscript in freedesktop.org.xml file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	James Thomas <let.it.bleed>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	lanius, tiago
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James Thomas 2005-03-18 10:16:00 UTC

The mime type entry for shellscripts (application/x-shellscript), in the /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml file, is incorrect, when using shared-mime-info 0.15.

The match value for bash, nawk, tcsh,csh, zsh and sh shells is incorrect, which results in applications using the specification (such as nautilus) unable to execute certain shell scripts.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Using nautilus, double click bash shell script
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Actual Results:  
Error message is displayed

Expected Results:  
Should be promted as to what to do with the script, read, execute etc...

Adding a #! solves the problem, for example

<match value="/bin/bash" type="string" offset="1:16"/> should be
<match value="#!/bin/bash" type="string" offset="1:16"/>

Once done, run update-mime-database.

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 04:02:16 UTC

what's your nautilus version? try shared-mime-info-0.16

Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-24 15:33:26 UTC

please try shared-mime-info-0.16