Update: Unknown media type in type 'all/all'

[Kulmbacher]

today synaptic told me at the end of update:

Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

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 full upgrade
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The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libqrencode3 (3.4.4-1+b2)
   libquazip5-1 (0.7.2-1)
   libsodium23 (1.0.16-2~mx17+1)
The following packages will be upgraded:
   keepassxc (2.3.4+dfsg.1-1~bpo9+1 => 2.4.1+dfsg.1-0.1~mx17+1)
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Unpacking keepassxc (2.4.1+dfsg.1-0.1~mx17+1) over (2.3.4+dfsg.1-1~bpo9+1) ...
Setting up libquazip5-1:amd64 (0.7.2-1) ...
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Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
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full upgrade complete (or was canceled)

what`s going wrong? MX is working as usual ;-)

by the way:
How to search an exact phrase here in forum?

I used like everywhere: "Unknown media type in type"

result shows me all single words, but not the exact phrase, it`s not very useful.

[Jerry3904]

I use Google on the error message:

Unknown media type in type 'all/all' mx linux

In this case, it points to a short thread with a comment by Dolphin Oracle:

do you have kdenlive installed by chance?

there is no problem, its just annoying. I get it every time something wants to update mimetypes.

[fehlix]

Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

An old report from 2008 , with a nice explanation:

Those fake mimetypes are installed by kdelibs with the file
/usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml since long time ago. They are kept in
kde4libs.
In a recent version, update-mime-database became verbose about this unknown
types, and that is why you get this error when you update stuff and then
update-mime-database is run.
It is unlikely to be changed.

The file /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml is part of the package kdelibs5-data.
Solutions:
1. just ignore
2. fix it yourself
3. or shall we fix it as fixed mx package
I would suggest to ignore it,
To: fix
Either remove /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
or delete both "unknown" dummy mimetypes within the file /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml itself.

[Kulmbacher]

@ Jerry,
up to yesterday I`ve never seen this message here

@ felix
to 1. never ;-)
to 2. with your help, we will see if it works
to 3. not required, if i`m the only one with this message

so i renamed kde.xml to xxxkde.xml.txt and will see what happens tomorrow morning after reboot or next update ...

[fehlix]

to 2. with your help, we will see if it works
so i renamed kde.xml to xxxkde.xml.txt and will see what happens tomorrow morning after reboot or next update ...

Here a one-liner to fix Unknown media warnings from those mime-info definitions made in /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml :

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xmlstarlet ed --inplace -N ns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" --delete '//ns:mime-type[@type="all/all" or @type="all/allfiles"]'  /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml

The command would need to run with enhanced sudo privileges to fix/patch the xml-file.
Instead of the usual sed/grep combinations, which are always a bit risky to use with XMLfiles,
the above one-liner uses XPath query on all XML-nodes with attributes values matches "all/all" ... to remove the corresponding xml-nodes within given xml-namespace (ns) in one go.
( further infos here: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/ )
HTH

[Klare Sache und damit hopp.]

[Kulmbacher]

$ sudo xmlstarlet ed --inplace -N ns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" --delete '//ns:mime-type[@type="all/all" or @type="all/allfiles"]' /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
sudo: xmlstarlet: command not found

root@mx:/home/oo# xmlstarlet ed --inplace -N ns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" --delete '//ns:mime-type[@type="all/all" or @type="all/allfiles"]' /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
bash: xmlstarlet: command not found

No starlet`s on board ;-)

[Jerry3904]

No starlet`s on board ;-)

So install it...

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sudo apt install xmlstarlet