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nautilus package

Places menu items opening document viewer rather than nautilus

Bug #695007 reported by Dave Gilbert on 2010-12-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #662194: [SRU] Nautilus: 'Remember this application for ..." option should be made inactive by default. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

On one of my two Natty machines, running the 'classic' (metacity) desktop, most of the items on the Places menu on the panel cause Document viewer to be opened (which then complains Unable to open document - Can't open directory).
The only one that actually works is 'Computer'.

Once I open Nautilus I can pick the items off the left side list pane and they work fine.

Dave

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic 2.6.37-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f2d10bd9f943a85b486a282e7840a570
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Tue Dec 28 12:37:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote on 2010-12-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GConfNonDefault.txt Edit (602 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
usr_lib_nautilus.txt Edit (336 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2010-12-28:

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.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2010-12-28:

Marking as duplicate, as this is the same issue as reported in bug #667071, and many other bugs reporting that some weird application is opening when clicking a place from the places menu. Something changes file associations badly, and until now, I haven't found what was that. If you have any info about what did you do lastly (maybe a package install log) and if you know that before that update this did not happen, please attach it here. It would be nice to know what changes the default application for the "Folder" type. also note, that there is a workaround in bug #667071 at comment 10.