openoffice can't open files from "open" menu

[Michelasso]

Hello everybody,
I have installed a dapper 32bit kubuntu in a chroot of an amd64 installation of breezy, to use openoffice 2.0.2 of dapper since the 1.9 avalaible for breezy amd64 is continuously crashing.

It seemed to work without problems, but I have now discoverered this problem (I am pretty sure it wasn't here before, it seems to depend on a recent upgrade of dapper):
when I try to open a file from the "open" menu of oowriter (but it's the same for other components of openoffice) I get this errors:

"Could not find mime type application/octet-stream"

and then

"No mime types installed"

then

"Malformed url file:///home/user"


and the choose file window appears but I can see no files inside it to open.

Instead if I open the file clicking on its icon and choosing to open it with oowriter there are no problems.
I am thinking to report it as a bug, but before I woluld like to know if anybody is experiencing the same problem.

[askrieger]

Re: openoffice can't open files from "open" menu

If you are sure that this behavior is due to a recent upgrade in Dapper, you can file a bug at Malone (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs at the Ubuntu wiki.).

[The Liquidator]

Re: openoffice can't open files from "open" menu

Sounds like it could be a paths issue. Is the directory in question your default directory for documents? If so, select tools/options/paths and look at the entry for "my documents".


Ian

[Michelasso]

Re: openoffice can't open files from "open" menu

Sounds like it could be a paths issue. Is the directory in question your default directory for documents? If so, select tools/options/paths and look at the entry for "my documents".


Ian

I have just checked it, and that entry is correctly set to /home/user

I have also found this: in breezy I have a openoffice.org-mimelnk package, whose description is
OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE, while this package is not present in dapper. I don't know if this can be related to my problem.