> 1. are the files executable in the terminal? if so, you should check the executable flags. this may be obvious, but it's worth looking into.
I think this needs more clarification after this long time. The files affected by this bug have there gear icon on the file missing (that I was refering to in the startpost as executable files which wasn't accurate). They look then just like simple text files.
> 2. are they only files that use #!/usr/bin/python? what about python3? what about #!/usr/bin/env python? for that matter, where does /usr/bin/python point to? it is a symbolic link after all.
At least Python 2, Python 3 and C files are currently affected by this bug (but PCManFM is correctly detecting the file types and I got the hint in the PCManFM tracker that this bug is probably related to an icon-theme). But I remember to have encountered more file types in the past.
> furthermore, what are the versions of everything are we talking about? what 14.10 image? a release or a daily image? which one? what is the last version you can say this was working with?
An upgraded Ubuntu 14.10 dev from an older Ubuntu version (the bug appears on 2 such machines). The package versions are:
> 1. are the files executable in the terminal? if so, you should check the executable flags. this may be obvious, but it's worth looking into.
I think this needs more clarification after this long time. The files affected by this bug have there gear icon on the file missing (that I was refering to in the startpost as executable files which wasn't accurate). They look then just like simple text files.
> 2. are they only files that use #!/usr/bin/python? what about python3? what about #!/usr/bin/env python? for that matter, where does /usr/bin/python point to? it is a symbolic link after all.
At least Python 2, Python 3 and C files are currently affected by this bug (but PCManFM is correctly detecting the file types and I got the hint in the PCManFM tracker that this bug is probably related to an icon-theme). But I remember to have encountered more file types in the past.
> furthermore, what are the versions of everything are we talking about? what 14.10 image? a release or a daily image? which one? what is the last version you can say this was working with?
An upgraded Ubuntu 14.10 dev from an older Ubuntu version (the bug appears on 2 such machines). The package versions are:
sworddragon@ ubuntu: ~$ installed-packages -o name -s all | awk '{print $5,$6}' | grep -E 'icon-theme| libfm|pcmanfm| shared- mime-info' theme-full (3.12.0-1ubuntu1) theme-symbolic (3.12.0-1)
gnome-icon-
gnome-icon-
gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-1ubuntu1)
hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1)
libfm-data (1.2.2.1-1ubuntu1)
libfm-gtk-data (1.2.2.1-1ubuntu1)
libfm-gtk4 (1.2.2.1-1ubuntu1)
libfm4 (1.2.2.1-1ubuntu1)
lxde-icon-theme (0.5.1-1)
pcmanfm (1.2.2-1)
shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3)