Bug 190340 – >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.22 crashes with recursive symlinks

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonathan Isom 2007-08-26 23:24:38 UTC]

I have a set of 2 symlinks in multiple locations. link a points to link b, and link b points to link a. when i open a directory containing this nautilus crashes instantly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ln -s /tmp/a /tmp/b
2.ln -s /tmp/b /tmp/a
3.nautilus /tmp

Actual Results:  
instant crash

Expected Results:  
Display directory

emerge --search nautilus
Searching...   
[ Results for search key : nautilus ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]
 
*  gnome-base/nautilus
      Latest version available: 2.18.3
      Latest version installed: 2.18.3
      Size of files: 4,229 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/
      Description:   A file manager for the GNOME desktop
      License:       GPL-2 LGPL-2 FDL-1.1

*  gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner
      Latest version available: 2.18.2
      Latest version installed: 2.18.2
      Size of files: 723 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.gnome.org/
      Description:   CD and DVD writer plugin for Nautilus
      License:       GPL-2 LGPL-2

*  gnome-extra/nautilus-open-terminal
      Latest version available: 0.8
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 262 kB
      Homepage:      http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/nautilus-open-terminal/
      Description:   Nautilus Plugin for Opening Terminals
      License:       GPL-2

*  gnome-extra/nautilus-sendto
      Latest version available: 0.10
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 314 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.gnome.org/
      Description:   A nautilus extension for sending files to locations
      License:       GPL-2

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2007-08-27 06:40:17 UTC]

Nice :) Thanks for the bug report.

I suggest you open a bug in Gnome's Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/, put the same information there and add "[e-mail]" as CC.

Upstream nautilus devs will know how to fix this better than us.

[Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2007-08-27 08:28:17 UTC]

Thanks :)

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-08-03 20:22:50 UTC]

(in upstream bug) according to Ford_Prefect it still occurs on 2.22 but his backtrace is incomplete. If someone can reproduce, please contribute the upstream bug.

[Comment 4 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2008-08-17 14:10:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (in upstream bug) according to Ford_Prefect it still occurs on 2.22 but his
> backtrace is incomplete. If someone can reproduce, please contribute the
> upstream bug.

I don't see this any longer on a fresh install. Just see 2 invalid symlinks now.

[Comment 5 Jonathan Isom 2008-08-17 14:47:59 UTC]

I have nautilus 2.22.2 and don't see it anymore.  Thanks

[Comment 6 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-08-18 13:18:14 UTC]

Closing then, as per comments #4 and #5. Thanks to all for the follow up.