Problems after updates (was: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:45 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
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> I pulled down and installed about 90 updates, but since then none of the
> objects in my ~/Desktop will launch programs -- instead they open as
> text files in the editor.
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> I had this happen once before and managed to fix it, but for the life of
> me I can't remember how?
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> Any ideas?

You might start by saying what desktop it is.

And please don't hijack threads (your message has nothing to do with the
one you replied to).

poc