I had exactly the same problem. I think the problem was with some mime file used by Nautilus rather than Gnome itself. I started with an alpha 5 version of Jaunty and upgraded regularly. I think it was when I did dist-upgrade that the problem started. The "random black text" is not random: it is the contents of the file from text editor's point of view which can obviously seem like garbage in the case of avi, zip etc files. The file association re-assignment did not happen randomly with me. Initially every file was opening with text editor. I then used
system -> preferences -> prefered applications to set avi files to open with movie player. From then on all files (eg .zip, .jpg etc) would open with movie player. I tried some of the ideas I found on the internet such as renaming ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd ~/.local and ~/.nautilus but this didn't help. Plus the problem occured with all users so it was clearly something system wide. I looked at /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and they seemed sane to my untrained eye. I decided to try another file manager to see if it had the same problem and did sudo apt-get install rox-filer When I started rox I saw that all the file associations were back to normal with the icons accurately reflecting the file's contents. I can't remember whether I had to log out and log in again but the install of rox fixed the Nautilus file associations. I was now back to normal with Nautilus displaying the correct icons and launching the right application on double click. There was clearly some common rox / nautilus file that was re-installed. -- file associations and file icons disappeared, random text on screen. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
