For anyone for whom the above solutions didn't work, passing reboot=pci as
described in this page solved the problem for me
http://serverfault.com/questions/126571/system-hangs-while-rebooting-on-debian
this appears to be related to acpi issues in the bios; the solutions above did
not work for
Apologies if this is a different bug altogether.
I agree there is a perfectly good use case for retaining the ability to open
folders with other applications, as with files.
For instance, I like to open movie or music folders (not necessarily as a
default action though) with totem, so that all
