"gnome-open burn:///" fails with "The default action does not support this protocol"

[Julien Olivier]

If I try to run "gnome-open burn:///", you get the following error: "The default action does not support this protocol".

However, if I enter "burn:///" in Nautilus' location bar, it opens Nautilus CD burner.

In a same way, if I insert a blank CD, and then click on "Blank CD" in the places menu, I get "The default action does not support this protocol". But if I click on "CD/DVD burner" in the places menu, it successfully opens Nautilus' CD burner.

PS: I get this bug since upgrading to hardy.

[Johan (deberghes-johan)]

I confirm this bug, very annoying. I'm on a clean hardy install, fully upgraded ...

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

boy, i installed Ubuntu Hardy 64bit from scratch and this is the first thing that hit me. Awful bug. No workarounds?

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

it looks like gnome-open is trying to open $HOME/burn:/// and it fails:

strace gnome-open burn:///
...
access("/Users/user/burn:///", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...

Is this how this is supposed to happen? I'm about to dig into the source code for libgnome2-0

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

Fixed:

The problem seems to be because of Nautilus. I did the following and this fixed it for me:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/nautilus
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/nautilus-cd-burner
pkill nautilus

Note that on Debian/Ubuntu Nautilus is supposed to handle the automounts of things and this was also failing for me as gnome-volume-manager does not even run. I read the source code for those daemons and the patches applied by Debian/Ubuntu until I found the culprit.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find. The bug is fixed in intrepid