opening my home folder or any applications on 'places' opens the movie player instead

[brian siamani]

Binary package hint: totem

the ubuntu OS has been working out fine for me but now everytime i open my home folder or any other applications under 'places' ,the movie player opens instead.what could be the problem.even when i switch off and on, the problem is still there.i use an HP pavilion-dv5.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 2 00:29:52 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[brian siamani (briansiamani)]

but then,how do i correct this problem,please give me advice.
thanks,
best wishes,
brian.

--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 683924] Re: opening my home folder or any applications on 'places' opens the movie player instead
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 1:53 PM
> Thanks for taking the time to report
> this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but
> this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked
> it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing
> attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of
> data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security
> vulnerability
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683924
>
> Title:
>   opening my home folder or any applications on
> 'places' opens the movie player instead
>
> Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: totem
>
> the ubuntu OS has been working out fine for me but now
> everytime i open my home folder or any other applications
> under 'places' ,the movie player opens instead.what could be
> the problem.even when i switch off and on, the problem is
> still there.i use an HP pavilion-dv5.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Dec  2 00:29:52 2010
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" -
> Release amd64 (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: totem
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/683924/+subscribe
>

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #667071, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

You can find instructions on how to fix this in bug #667071 comment 10.