[Fwd: Broken KDE mime types Mandriva 2007]

[Ian]

Greetings,

Thank you Michael and Alphax.
Prior to receiving your replies I created a new user and migrated my 
data across to it.  Everything (seems to) works now except the Firefox 
message filters.
I shall test your suggestion on the old user directory and given that it 
works, regret thant I could have save myself a lot of chown and chusr.


Regards
Ian

Greetings All,

I have installed mandriva 2007 FREE as an upgrade into an existing 
partition structure.
As a result of my attempts to edit mime types, KDE is broken.  The 
system reports the error " Could not find mime type application/octet 
stream."   This behaviour extends to the guest user account also.
I subsequently re-ran the installation (as an install, not upgrade) with 
no improvement to the situation.   During the install I preserved the 
contents of the /home and /tmp partitions, all others were re-formatted.
I rather suspect therefore that the problem lies within /home but I 
would prefer to leave it untouched.

Does anyone know how to, or where to look to repair the damage.

I accept the info above is scant, any suggestions would be greatly 
appreciated.
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