Yes, I am sure. However changing the association has fixed this problem. To date I have had no further problems
Thanks for your help. Quoting "Sebastien Bacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > you confirm that the current intrepid creates buggy configuration? are > you sure you didn't have that configuration in hardy? > > -- > opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260492 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in Nautilus: Fix Released > Status in ?nautilus? source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > > Bug description: > After using 'upgrade-manager -d" to Intrepid, something during the > upgrade prosses unintentionally hijacked our configurations to > launch various programs in-place of nautilus for opening folders > from the places menu. > > I do not believe that the package 'gnome-panel' is necessarily at > fault, but don't have a clue where the root cause is as I don't > understand how the places menu works, however Tuomas Aavikko's > workaround gave me success in fixing the issue: > > Right click on a folder in nautilus ->Open with app-> File Manager > > Now I can open my home folder from the places menu again. So it > seems that there is a file extension for folders that is being > hijacked by the installation / upgrade of other packages such as > VLC, gthumb, totem, amarok, kaffeine, Konqueror, Archiver Manager. > (compiled from comments and duplicate of this bug.) > -- opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs