broken link in autostart directory makes application hang forever

[Adrianna Pińska]

I recently noticed that fbautostart was no longer starting all my apps, and I could see that the process wasn't terminating at all. When I ran it on the commandline I saw it hanging just after printing the error message "Crapola file".

After some investigation I discovered that a badly packaged third-party application had put a broken symlink in my ~/.config/autostart directory, and when I deleted this file everything started working again. Perhaps a check could be added for this?