[SOLVED] X: "No application is registered as handling this file" / Places not wo

[raimund]

Regards to: Ploplinux 4.2.1 with X-Support

It is not possible to open files by just clicking on it in Nautilus. Also the GNOME places menu doesn't work.

The error messages are:
Could not open location 'file://' (or similar).
No application is registered as handling this file

The reason is an empty mimecache.info in /opt/share/applications/
Since /opt is a readonly filesystem this problem must corrected in the Image and cn't solved at boot time.

Workaround:

You need a running linux with following programs installed:

• update-desktop-database (package desktop-file-utils)
• mksquashfs, unsquashfs (package squashfs-tools)

This may be the ploplinux system itself (with X support).

• 
  If using an ISO-Image, this image should be opened per loopback-mount, an extracted *.tar.gz-Image may be mounted per NFS.
  
• Then change to the root directory of that ploplinux image:
  cd {root-of-ploplinux-image}
  
• Enter the following command:
  cd ploplinux/opt \
  && unsquashfs opt.sqfs \
  && update-desktop-database squashfs-root/share/applications/ \
  && mksquashfs squashfs-root opt.sqfs -noappend \
  && rm -Rf squashfs-root
  

Thats all.

Best regards,
Raimund

[Elmar]

It is not possible to open files by just clicking on it in Nautilus. Also the GNOME places menu doesn't work.

in 4.2.2 its working again

best regards
elmar