also, do not upgrade all of your KDE packages without logging out/in again vanRijn: you could just have run kbuildsycoca manually ;) * pusling only recieved about 10 bugs in kde abouth the upgrade to 3.5.7 broke their installation pusling: meh. Real Men Zap X (TM). =;P ;) heh I just went through re-install hell the last 2 days got 4 hours of sleep 2 nights ago went from opensuse 10.2.... installed fedora 7... apparently my cryptoloop-encrypted home partition is completely unusable with kernel 2.6.21. i blame the new pata drivers. so downloaded opensuse 10.3-alpha4 (all 6 cd's, 'cause they don't have a dvd iso, grr) installed it (went surprisingly smoothly for an alpha) and found out that it also is unable to use my cryptoloop-encrypted home partition (kernel 2.6.21 also) did a rescue boot off of a suse 10.1 dvd copied all 30 gigs of my home partition off to an external usb drive (like scraping your gums, it's so slow) reformatted home with straight XFS, copied it back (went much faster, not being encrypted) re-installed fedora 7, thinking that things would be better this time discovered that fedora 7 is a big, stinking piece of poopie which does not play nicely with my hardware (thinkpad T42--hangs it intermittently and refuses to shut down cleanly) re-re-installed opensuse 10.3-alpha4 and am now back to where I was before all this started, with a new alpha4 release which runs as smoothly as anything I've ever run before also, 10.3-alpha4 (well, Factory, actually) has KDE 3.5.7 which is what I updated to immediately before I blathered about the mime-type issues and that's where you came in all "kbuildsycoca"-ey... =;PPP Oooh, I need to blog that