Clicking anything in "places" tries to start Nautilus but then it gives up and never opens. Home, desktop, documents, computer - nothing opens. "Search for files" DOES work and also clicking a folder on the desktop will open the file manager just fine. I can also launch nautilus from the command line. It's only clicking the links in Places that doesn't work.

I've tried the various fixes I've found - removing nautilus open terminal, the ubuntuone integration, adding a line to mimetypes for nautilus - no change. Suggestions?

Fresh install of 11.10 but kept my "home" on a separate partition. Have to use Gnome Classic (regular or "no effects" both work) due to older hardware.