gnome desktop mishandles text information in desktop TXT files

[Susan Cragin]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

A very small bug...
I keep a bunch of TXT files on the desktop. Naturally, this creates icons for those files. Well, normally, the Ubuntu desktop displays a portion of the text inside each icon box.
It stopped doing that, just about an hour ago.
In addition, random samples of text from those same TXT files show up elsewhere on the desktop.
Very odd.
In addition, the command Take Screenshot has stopped working, so I can't show you what happens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 6 19:11:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.7-rt
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-rt i686

[Daan Davidsz (daandavidsz)]

Not only that, now suddenly Gnome or Nautilus thinks all my files are text files. So it tries to open movies with gedit and so on.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

@Daan, what you have is bug 444962

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Screenshot attached.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Another screenshot, after removing the effect of bug #444962 -- both bugs are independent.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. After a reboot the text in the text file preview text is inside the icon again.