Nautilus crashes when associating applications to unknown file types

[Simon Barner]

Hi,

In my installation, .txt aren't associated with an application.

First question: Might this be a local problem? Please see the keyboard
repeat rate mail for a description of my installation.

When I try to specify a handler for those file types
<Menu>->Applications-> Desktop Preferences->Advanced->File types and
programs, and there Documents->Plain Text->Plain text documents, nothing
happens. I tried various editors, but without success.

When I double click in nautilus to open a text file, a dialogue is
shown, that offers me to associate a program with that file type. As
soon as I hit that button, nautilus crashes.

The core dump I got wasn't very useful (also with debugging symbols:
something in libc_r), but I inserted some printf's into nautilus and
found out that the crash is line 968 of
nautilus-2.5.5/libnautilus-private/nautilus-program-chooser.c:

launch_mime_capplet (NautilusFile *file,
                     GtkDialog    *parent_dialog)
{
        GdkScreen *screen;
        char *command, *tmp, *mime_type, *file_name;

--->    screen = gtk_window_get_screen (GTK_WINDOW (parent_dialog));

I already verified, that parent_dialog is non-0x0

Any help appreciated,
 Simon
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