Bug#542451: nautilus: Nautilus displays an empty folder for an afs-mounted symlink

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 09:18:22 UTC 2009


Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 10:38 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : 
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mercredi 19 aot 2009  20:12 +0200, Svante Signell a crit : 
> > > Nautilus from testing (2.26.3-1) shows a blank entry for an AFS-mounted 
> > > volume using a symlink: afs_srs -> /afs/.../srs/
> > > 
> > > No user or group ID has changes, I just upgraded from lenny to squeeze.
> > 
> > Sorry, but I don’t understand your report. What is this symlink? What is
> > the directory it is pointing to? Is it already mounted or are you trying
> > to mount it this way?
> 
> The afs directory has been mounted already. Everything works as expected
> from a terminal. It does not in Nautilus, however, with the graphic interface.
> Checking the properties shows that it is a symlink: 
> 
> Name: afs_srs
> Type: Link to folder (inode/directory)
> Link target: /afs/.../srs
> Contents: nothing

What is the output of the following commands?
gvfs-info afs_srs
gvfs-info /afs/.../srs
gvfs-ls -l /afs/.../srs

> The following warning is issued when running nautilus:
> ** (nautilus:26516): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
> supported
> 
> Is this related to my problem?

It is related, but nautilus should be able to show the contents of the
directory even without monitoring it.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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