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nautilus package

  1. Bug #876788
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Comment 0 for bug 876788

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Many users upgrading from 11.04 or eariler will be unable to open trash; flash drives & if using Classic session places iin nautilus

This issue isn't really a nautilus one per se, have to start somewhere.

The issue is simple, updaters are quite likely to have this line in the [Default Applications] section of ~/.local/share/mimeapps.list
inode/directory=
If it is inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop, which no longer exists, then things like trash & usb flash drives will open with the 1st. listed .desktop on the inode/directory= line in the [Added Associations] section which in many cases is a media player

Have just myself seen over a dozen such cases in a couple days
for users that are logging into gnome-fallback this can also extend to the places menu

In 11.10 & 12.04 this will mainly affect 10.10, 11.04 & 10.04 users who installed before 10.04.2
Maybe there is nothing to be done, eventually it will go away as installs with nautilus-folder.handler.desktop disappear
(it's possible that one of the other nautilus.desktop names that is also no longer used could be on that line to the same effect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 17 14:56:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)