Bug#680175: gnome-mime-data: Linux kernel mime type reported to be x-ms-dos-executable

2013-04-04 Thread kate_stefik
Hi,

it looks like the linux kernel files (for ex. vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae, 
vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 ) has DOS MZ executable file header: it starts with MZ. 

  4d 5a ea 07 00 c0 07 8c  c8 8e d8 8e c0 8e d0 31  |MZ.1|
0010  e4 fb fc be 40 00 ac 20  c0 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00  |@.. .t..|
0020  cd 10 eb f2 31 c0 cd 16  cd 19 ea f0 ff 00 f0 00  |1...|
0030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 d0 00 00 00  ||


So, according to the magic file, the file is recognized as DOS executable. Is 
that the cause?

Kat


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Bug#680175: gnome-mime-data: Linux kernel mime type reported to be x-ms-dos-executable

2012-07-04 Thread Stephen Black
Package: gnome-mime-data
Version: 2.18.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
Not really sure if this is affecting just me, but lately I had noticed
the most recent kernel on my machine had a Windows type icon when browsing
files in nautilus. Selecting 'properties' dialog reported that
vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64 was an x-ms-dos-executable. Two previous kernel versions
were correct (octet-stream). Using 'mimetype -a /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64'
reports the file as having two types: application/x-ms-dos-executable, and
application/octet-stream. If this is affecting only my machine, I have no idea
how it could have happened. To be honest, I'd noticed it about a month ago, but
just thought is was some strange bug and was waiting for a fix. After some
extensive googling, and coming up with nothing even close, I decided to
investigate further.
On my system I found the tool assoGiate, and created a new type in
the local database. Calling it linux-kernel and associating filenames with
vmlinuz* has taken care of the issue locally for me. If it turns out this is
only my unique problem, I'm sorry for wasting your time. Just seemed awfully
strange to see a windows icon next to the linux kernel.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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