wxGlade: Failed to convert file "..." to Unicode.

[^rooker]

Something strange (nothing tragic, but strange) happend. I couldn't gather enough evidence to find out if this problem also exists outside of my computer, so I didn't file a bug report on launchpad, yet.

Here are the details:

I started "wxGlade" and got the following error message:

Failed to convert file "/home/username/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/futuresplash.desktop" to Unicode.

So I took a look at the "futuresplash.desktop" file (which, as far as I know, should be a plain text ASCII file, but it contained binary data. btw: futuresplash.desktop belongs to "Shockwave Flash" related filetype/mime handling.

There's another post, that contains an .xsession-errors message which could have also been caused by futuresplash.desktop not being a .desktop file: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user ... 35170.html


However, running "file" on it:

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file futuresplash.desktop

...told me that it's of type:

futuresplash.desktop: ICE authority data

There's not a lot of information about ICE authority data on the web, but it seems to be related to KDE login handling - but therefore, the file ~/.ICEauthority is read.


Just wanted to write that down, so I can remember it - and maybe someone who also encounters this knows that it happened before.