nautilus problems

[Scott Talbot]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:12 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:57:46 -0700, Scott Talbot <talbotscott at cox.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > All:
> > 
> > I guess I am alone in seeing that Nautilus no longer
> displays .jpg, .gif
> > files (thumbnails do still work).  Clicking on them yields an error
> > "Couldn't display whatever.gif"
> 
> Nope seems to be a general problem with file associations. Like you, i
> dont see gnome setting any file associations. In my mind this is
> either a problem with the gnome-vfs2 package or with the
> gnome-mime-data package. A quick search through bugzilla doesn't see
> it reported yet. I would suggest you file it against gnome-mime-data
> in bugzilla, after you make a search through the 'zilla yourself of
> course. I could easily have missed the report.
> Though i should test this with a fresh user and see if the problem
> persists.
> 
> > Nautilus windows are crashing often, I'm not really sure why as
> > sometimes I haven't been doing anything before the crash. often I
> have
> > to completely reboot to get back to barely operable.  Looking over
> the
> > logs has not helped determine anything (maybe i don't know what I'm
> > looking for!)
> 
> Sorry i havent seen nautilus dieing off on my box, not sure where to
> point you about that.
> 
> -jef
> 


	Jeff: thanks for replying. I filed the bug under nautilus, as the
gnome-mime-types file has not been updated.  I didn't see any other file
in the install list that looked even remotely like a suspect either.  if
you need to add to the report, or are interested in it the # is #
129626 

Scott