Goofey problem.

From Places, selecting Home, Desktop, Documents, Music or Videos from the drop down menu should open the file manager for those "places". What happens is Rhythmbox comes up in the panel, instead.

Goofey problem!

Not experiencing this here (Ubuntu 9.10 upgraded from 9.04). Have you tried the edit menu function to make sure they haven't gotten scrambled?

This is a problem in the "panel".

If you mean, System-Preferences-Main Menu, that isn't where the problem is. Otherwise "the edit menu" isn't something I am aware of.

what version of Ubuntu are you using? your info says 8.10, your sig says 8.04.

if you call the file manager from the terminal does it open properly?

and does terminal give any errors?

what type of menu do you have on your panel? eg. "Main Menu" with just a single logo start button, "Menu Bar" with the 3 options "Applications Places System", or a custom menu like GnoMenu or the likes?

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Thanks, alienclone for the tip about versions. This is Karmic ver. 9.10.

Here is the terminal output:

mark@Lexington-19-karmic:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:2326): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed


The top panel, on the left side, has 3 words. Applications, Places and System. These are "pull down" type menus. On opening or pulling down the Places, 5 selections are possible: Home, Desktop, Documents, Music, Videos.

Pulling down to any of those 5 selections, opens NOT Nautilus by Rhythmbox.

sounds like you need to reinstall Nautilus
hit y then enter at each prompt (should be twice) then after it is finished try to open nautilus from the terminal again and see if it works

I ran the code and the terminal said:

mark@Lexington-19-karmic:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:3927): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
mark@Lexington-19-karmic:~$

and then the Nautilus GUI window opened.

However, when I opened Places and pulled down to Home Folder, Rhythmbox opened instead of Nautilus.

Netsearching for eel-critical returned:

Try deleting all your configuration files with

cd /home/yourusername

then


sudo rm -rf .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

This should restore the system to a default desktop. - From a recovery screen of course. It will wipe out all configuration settings, including Evolution settings, so back those up before using the command.

from:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...69#post8428769

I'm marking this as solved.

Thanks, Community.