I straced the mimedb process when trying mimdb -d .xls (this is the line that blocks mine), I saw it loop juste after opening this file /usr/share/mime/application/vnd.ms-excel.xml, I tried to edit the file removing different XML element to see which made it block. Apparently if the is a comment field without an xml:lang attribute, it blocks on the function regexec. So this file parse:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mime-type xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"; type="application/vnd.ms-excel"> <!--Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!--> <comment xml:lang="en_GB">Excel spreadsheet</comment> <generic-icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> <alias type="application/msexcel"/> <alias type="application/x-msexcel"/> <sub-class-of type="application/zip"/> </mime-type> but not this one (see the added comment line): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mime-type xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"; type="application/vnd.ms-excel"> <!--Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!--> <comment xml:lang="en_GB">Excel spreadsheet</comment> <generic-icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> <alias type="application/msexcel"/> <alias type="application/x-msexcel"/> <comment>Excel 2007 VBA add-in</comment> <sub-class-of type="application/zip"/> </mime-type> My conjectured diagnostic is that mimedb is trying to parse XML using regex and forgot to handle comments without xml:lang attributes. -- tab completion crashes fish shell https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149998 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
