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Cyclic references kill Nautilus

Contents

  • What I did
  • My Nautilus
  • Bug report?

I just wanted to answer an assignment and noticed that cyclic references kill Nautilus.

What I did

mkdir testFolder
cd testFolder
touch testFile.txt
ln -s testFile.txt mySoftlink
rm testFile.txt
ln -s mySoftlink testFile.txt
ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 moose moose 10 2013-01-20 21:20 myfile.txt -> mySoftLink
lrwxrwxrwx 1 moose moose 10 2013-01-20 21:18 mySoftLink -> myfile.txt

Those two softlinks refer to each other. Now try to open this folder with Nautilus:

nautilus /home/moose/Desktop/testFolder/

Nautilus opens and instantly closes again.

My Nautilus

I use Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS with Nautilus 2.30.1.

Bug report?

I know, the current version of Nautilus is 3.6.1, but how often do you find a bug which is so easy to reproduce?

The Nautilus Bugtracker is here, but where would you look for the bug?

Published

Jan 20, 2013
by Martin Thoma

Category

Code

Tags

  • Bug 4
  • file manager 1
  • GNOME 2
  • Operating Systems 5
  • OS 5

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