When using Gnome's Midnight Commander file manager, and you double-click on any file (like .html) that is associated with netscape, the file will get loaded into netscape, but an error will be displayed: Netscape: Error: could not fdopen() the new stderr: Invalid argument I'm pretty sure this is a bug in 'mc' since you can do the following from an xterm: $ netscape file.html & And no errors will appear.
Still broken in pinstripe - mc version 4.5.51.
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
Fixed in 4.5.51-13.