Jim, Thank you for the response. I think the bug you pointed out is unrelated to my problem but it was worth a try. When I execute the gnomevfs-ls command on a directory, including "file:///home/tom", it works fine and displays my home directory contents. I'm pretty certain my problem has something to do with URL registration used by the GNOME "Places" menu. The error message sounds like some GNOME main-menu application tries to figure out what to do with a "file:" URL, and doesn't know that it should launch Nautilus. If I execute "nautilus file:///home/tom" from the command line, Nautilus launches fine. My solution might be as simple as figuring out where the GNOME launcher associates URLs with applications. I have looked around for how to re-associate Nautilus with the file: protocol, but so far no luck. I have also had no luck figuring out what went wrong -- what overwrote whatever used to exist -- and if there is an easy way to return to the status quo ante. -Tom P.S. Sorry for the delayed response. My spam filter grabbed your email and just 3 others from fedora-list and decided they were spam. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:12:21 PM > Subject: Re: Error help: There is no default action associated with this location > > Tom McQ wrote: > > After I installed new software (could have been vmware or > nvidia > driver) on Fedora 8, the Places menu in the launcher bar seems to have > lost > its mime-type associations between the "file:" protocol and > nautilus. > The mime-type association for PDF files seems to have been changed > to > some wrong setting as well. > > > > Here's what I did: When I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.23.9, I got > some > errors on boot (I don't recall precisely what they were) from > my > nvidia driver, but the graphics system still seemed to work OK. The > problem > seemed to be that the nvidia driver hadn't yet been updated to > support > the 2.6.23.9 kernel. When the new nvidia driver came out a day or > so > later on the repo, I upgraded to that and the nvidia error went > away. > Around this time I also installed VMware Workstation. That's when > I > discovered that when I click on my Places menu and click on Home > Folder, > Documents, Desktop, Download, etc., I get an error dialog that says: > > > > Could not open location 'file:///home/tom' (or the > other > directories I select) > > There is no default action associated with this location. > > > > I'm pretty sure Nautilus is the application that normally would > get > launched for the file: protocol. I have no clue how to fix this to > again > associate the file protocol with Nautilus. Oddly, going > to > Places-Computer correctly opens Nautilus file browser showing my Computer. > > > > I think my problem is more than just related to the file: > protocol > with Nautilus. If I open Nautilus from the command line and > double-click > a PDF file, I get the message: > > > > The filename "[whatever file I clicked on].pdf" indicates > that > this file is of type "pdf document". > > The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type > "PDF > document". If you open this file, the > > file might present a security risk to your system. > > Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, > or > received > > the file from a trusted source. > > To open the file, rename the file to > > the correct extension for "PDF document", then open the file > > normally. > > Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a > specific > application > > for the file. > > > > > > Note that Gnome/Nautilus (or whatever application is handling > the > double-click launching) seems to have some confusion between > 'pdf > document' and 'PDF document' file associations. This error is a new error, > by > the way, which occurred after I uninstalled and re-installed > Nautilus. > Before reinstalling Nautilus, double-clicking on a PDF file gave me > an > error that said no application was association with "pdf/application" > or > perhaps it was "???/octet-stream" -- I forget what MIME type the > error > message complained about. I think even trying to open a PDF file > using > "evince" from the command-line gave me the MIME-type error. > > > > Anyone know what happened to my settings and how I can fix it? I > have > been a longtime Linux user but I'm pretty new to desktop Linux, > so > please forgive me if the application names and terms I use here are > wrong. > I'm using the standard/default Gnome desktop environment. > > > > I poked through the .gconf directory in my home directory (it > seemed > a likely suspect) looking for file-extension/application > associations, > but haven't found anything yet that looks appropriate. The > .gconf > directory has "apps", "desktop" and "system" subdirectories. These > three > subdirectories contain a 0-byte "%gconf.xml" file. Those > "%gconf.xml" > files seemed a likely place to configure the Gnome desktop, but > since > they're empty files, I'm flying blind on what should go in them. Does > anyone > know if these %gconf.xml files are normally empty on a standard > Linux > system? Did something overwrite/corrupt these files? Or is my > problem > completely unrelated to 0-byte %gconf.xml files? > > > > If it helps, here is my .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers directory: > > > > [tom@fedora ~]$ ls -la .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ > > total 28 > > drwx------ 3 tom tom 4096 2007-12-21 17:14 ./ > > drwx------ 12 tom tom 4096 2007-12-21 17:14 ../ > > -rw------- 1 tom tom 0 2007-12-21 17:14 %gconf.xml > > drwx------ 2 tom tom 4096 2007-12-21 17:14 mailto/ > > > > Notice it has a 0-byte %gconf.xml file, too. Any advice > or > suggestions on how to fix this problem would be appreciated. > > > > -Tom > > > > Check out this bug for a similar problem with computer:// in rawhide. > The zero length files might be key. gnomevfs-ls in the comment might > be > > a good tool to figure out your particular problem. > > Jim > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427453 > > -- > Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for > a > change. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
