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shared-mime-info package

Ubuntu tries to open .run self-extracting installers with gEdit

Bug #118408 reported by Duncan Lithgow
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shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on this hardware: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP_Pavilion_DV8220EA

Ubuntu tries to open .run self-extracting installers with gEdit.

It should be giving the user some information on what type of file this is and what they might need to do for it to be handled correctly (make it executable).

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)
description: updated
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Martin Owens (doctormo) wrote :

Confirmed in nautilus, gnome opens a binary program correctly when the mode is 755 (executable) but tries to open ELF binaries in Wine if it's not executable.

Gnome should be able to identify a program which you don't have execution permissions on.

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report. could you try if that's still an issue? what ubuntu version do you use?

Changed in nautilus:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

I don't understand Martin's comment enough to know what type of file to test this with. I have no idea what the original file was, sorry.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in shared-mime-info:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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