Bug 66490 – file-roller 2.8.0 won't open files by default

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description aethyr 2004-10-06 00:13:04 UTC]

I'm not sure if this is a GNOME error, or a packaging error, so I'm filing here, feel free to move upstream if necessary.

Basically, with GNOME 2.8, file-roller doesn't open files when I double click them, instead it produces an error:

Couldn't display "/path/to/file.zip"
There was an error launching the application.

where /path/to/file.zip is the path to any zip file that I choose.  It can also be a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz2 file.

However, if I right-click on the file, and choose "Open with Other Application", and then type in file-roller and hit ENTER, the file will open as expected.

Additionally, when I then right click on the file, I have two options.  A "file-roller" up top, seperated by a bar from a "file-roller" below it.  This top file-roller still doesn't work, however, if I click on the "file-roller" below it, the file will open.  Double clicking still doesn't work.

Finally, if I right click and go into properties -> open with and change the selection from the top "file-roller" to the "file-roller" below it, then everything works as expected by default (i.e. I can double click on a file, and it works).

As I'm writing this, I just noticed one last thing.  While still in the "Open With" menu, if I remove the second entry, and then remove the first "file-roller" entry, it changes to something called "Archive Manager".  Things work with this "Archive Manager" entry as expected.

This is with gnome-vfs 2.8.1, nautilus 2.8.0, and shared-mime-info 0.15.



Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.
8.1-ck8)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1-ck8 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s
hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://mirror.clarkson.e
du/pub/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp:/
/mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr dga dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif g
nome gtk gtk2 hal imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql 
ncurses nls opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl s
lang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xprint xv zlib"


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-10-06 00:51:22 UTC]

hmm, I have never had this issue/can't reproduce. Is it file roller that produces the error window, or is it just a general error window?  Using the latest desktop-file-utils package?

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-06 04:49:38 UTC]

artchive manager is the correct one to use. Have you been adding your own file handlers over time? I bet something old/non-default is interfering.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2004-11-30 08:09:16 UTC]

No traffic, and appears a local error. Reopen if still a problem.