nautilus hanging (gnome 2.12)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:12 -0700, Brian Gruber wrote:
> --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:58 -0700, Brian Gruber
> > wrote:
> > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 20:52 -0700, Brian Gruber
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Nautilus hangs on me somewhat frequently now
> > that
> > > > i've
> > > > > switched to gnome 2.12 via marcus' cvs.  the
> > hangs
> > > > > happen while just browsing through a
> > directory, or
> > > > > occasionally upon opening a file.
> > > > >
> > > > > the directory i'm currently browsing is an
> > ext2
> > > > mount,
> > > > > but i'm not 100% certain that's always been
> > the
> > > > case
> > > > > when it has crashed.  help?
> > > > 
> > > > This isn't a very good bug report.  Please see
> > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html
> > for
> > > > details on creating a
> > > > useful report.  In particular, you didn't
> > mention
> > > > what version of
> > > > FreeBSD you're using, include a pkg_info, or
> > provide
> > > > a backtrace with
> > > > debugging symbols.
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
> > > 
> > > Sorry bout that.  I've updated my machine to
> > 5.4-p7
> > > and the ports are up to date as of last night. 
> > uname
> > > -a:
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD calvin 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD
> > 5.4-RELEASE-p7
> > > #1: Sun Oct  2 16:34:11 EDT 2005    
> > > root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CALVIN  i386
> > > 
> > > env, pkg_info and backtrace are attached.
> > > 
> > > let me know if there's any other info i need to
> > > supply.
> > 
> > What does the symlink ``/home'' point to (i.e.
> > output of ls -l /).  It
> > looks like there is a problem with an infinite
> > symlink loop.  This
> > really shouldn't happen in the version of gnomevfs2
> > you're running,
> > though.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> /home points to /usr/home.  
> 
> this crash occured while looking at
> /home/bgruber/Desktop/media/holding. 
> /home/bgruber/Desktop/media is a symlink to
> /home/bgruber/media.  there's an ext2 partition
> mounted at /usr/home/bgruber/media.  Having said all
> of that, I'm not 100% sure that every crash has taken
> place in some directory within that
> /home/bgruber/Desktop/media symlink.

This looks like a bug in the gnome-vfs symlink resolution code.  I
recommend you open a bug in GNOME Bugzilla for this.  Be sure to include
the version of gnome-vfs as well as the backtrace and this symlink map.

Joe

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