[rox-users] Re: open a text files fails

[Stephen W. <st...@ke...>]

Rossen Apostolov <rp...@mo...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After upgrade to ROX-Filer 2.4.1 , Gentoo, i get the following error
> when clicking on a text file:
> Failed to execute child process
> /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/test (Permission denied)
> 
> $ ll /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 2006-04-17 11:11 application_postscript
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2006-04-17 11:11 text
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 381 2006-04-17 11:11 text_html
> 
> ... What's wrong, any idea?

They don't have execute permission set!  You need to do something like
    chmod +x /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/*
as root.

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