Symbolic links for desktop folders result in "invalid folder" errors when opened from gnome panel

[Niels Penneman]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

In my home directory, quite some folders such as Documents, Downloads, etc. are symlinks to folders on a distributed filesystem. If that filesystem is not available during boot, gnome somehow remembers this.

When trying to open any such folder from the panel (through the Places menu), i get "<NAME> is not a valid folder".

When opening my home folder with Nautilus, the symlinks do NOT show up. Only when I refresh in Nautilus, they show up and the panel starts working normally. This behavior might be related to gnome-vfs or nautilus more than gnome-panel, but I only get an error popup with gnome-panel.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 14 10:44:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.