Gnome places menu [SOLVED]

Strange behaviour on my gnome desktop. Folders in the places menu are opened by audacious instead of nautilus.
I tested deleting all gnome configuration folders and reinstalling nautilus without luck.
Removing audacious does not default to nautilus either:
  Could not open location 'file:///home/******'
  There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.
This only happens in the places menu. Elsewhere nautilus opens folders.
Last edited by grandmouse (2008-07-18 09:00:45)

Thanks kensai. I did
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
after commenting out
<alias type="x-directory/normal"/>
in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
Now gnome-open works again.
gvfs-open did not need this change.

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