library scan does not handle recursive links properly

[Ric Flomag]

Binary package hint: banshee

Steps to reproduce:
 * create simple recursive link to your music folder (ln -s ~/Music ~/Music/my-recursive-link)
 * start banshee (or Tools -> rescan music collection)

Result : Banshee scans each track about 20 times
Expected : Banshee detects recursive links and scans each track only once

In the real life, this happened to me after having linked two music collections with each other from two different hard drives.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 1.9.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 31 11:19:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110321)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es:en_US:en
 LANG=es_DO.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Are you still facing this behaviour with banshee 1.9.6? I tried to reproduce this issue here but banshee crashed for me, by the way, I have linked a ntfs partition where I have all my music (just for the record)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.