Baltix

file-roller associates itself with windows executables that it can't handle

Bug #351429 reported by Scott Ritchie on 2009-03-30

This bug affects 15 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
File Roller	Confirmed	Low	gnome-bugs #577276
Baltix	New	Undecided	Unassigned
file-roller (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: file-roller

Intrepid and Jaunty both have a very frustrating bug for Wine users - double clicking a Windows executable causes it to open in File Roller and generate a very cryptic "Null" error report.

In /usr/share/applications/file-roller.desktop, file-roller associates itself with "application/x-ms-dos-executable", which is what causes this behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2009-03-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-03-30

Changed in fileroller:
status:	Unknown → New

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-03-30

Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2009-03-31:

Remove application/x-ms-dos-executable from file roller associations Edit (6.4 KiB, text/plain)

The attached patch fixes the issue entirely. Please sponsor. Thank you!

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2009-03-31:

file-roller-no-ms-dox-executables.debdiff Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

Oops, sorry, there were two .patch files in that debdiff for some reason - please use this one instead.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-03-31:

Thank, I will wait for upstream comments on the issue though, they probably listed there is because auto-exe zip can be opened by file-roller for example

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-01:

unsubscribing the sponsors the change is a workaround

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) on 2009-10-13

tags:

added: intrepid jaunty karmic
removed: amd64 apport-bug

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2010-04-03:

Can I have an update on this? This is still an issue in Lucid and it's really annoying.

I still don't see any value in opening .exes with file-roller by default when Wine is installed. Is there a way for Wine to take priority now? I understand this wasn't the case in Karmic.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2010-04-03:

For what it's worth upstream says we should make Wine the default handler as well.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2010-07-19:

Qouting upstream file-roller developer: "this is done to support self-extracting archives, anyway you can fix this by setting wine as the default handler of .exe files. This is more a distribution bug than a file-roller bug." I agree with Scott Ritchie, that the ms-dos executable associations for file-roller should be removed.

David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount) on 2010-07-25

tags:

added: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in file-roller:
importance:	Unknown → Low

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2011-03-31:

I was going to provide another patch for Natty but it seems when you install Wine now it takes the double click action by default instead.

What troubles me is that I have no idea why, or if this will be true for every user.

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turbolad (turbolad995) wrote on 2012-02-20:

#10

Does this same bug result in the Minecraft java (.jar) file being opened with the Archive Manager, instead of OpenJDK, when the .jar file is double left-clicked?

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Kevin Havens (bootloop-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2016-01-05:

#11

Still a bug in trusty.

Come on, is this gonna be fixed?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-01-03