Nautilus creates broken symbolic links to files located on GVFS mounts

[Ritesh Khadgaray]

1. Description of the problem:

Nautilus creates broken symbolic links to files located on GVFS mounts
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635864

2. Ubuntu release, software version, Release Number and Architecture of the selected components.

- 12.04 /12.10
- nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu4

3. How reproducible is the problem?

100%

4. Steps to Reproduce:

* Mount SFTP share (or samba share)
* Click and drag the file to the desktop
* Hold alt, then drop the file on the desktop
* Choose "Link Here" from the menu
* Enjoy the broken links!

a. Actual Results:

For ssh links:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric domain^users 15 2012-10-18 16:02 Link to bamf -> /home/eric/bamf

(expected /home/eric/.gvfs/sftp for eric on 10.153.108.202/home/eric/bamf or otherwise working link)

For Samba/Windows mounts:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric domain^users 23 2012-10-18 16:01 Documents and Settings -> /Documents and Settings

(expected /home/eric/.gvfs/c$ on ubundows.ubuntudomain.int/Documents and Settings or otherwise working link)

 b. Expected Results:

Working link created.

5. Known Workaround:

Either do it from the command-line or use Thunar, which works.

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

proposed patch for precise based on upstream code.

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

proposed patch for quantal

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

[ Impact ]

* Nautilus creates broken symbolic links to files located on GVFS mounts

* The fix is trivial and has been backported form upstream

[ Test Case]

* Updated in bug decription

[Regression Potential]

* minimal potential for regression

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed with 3.6 in raring

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks Ritesh, I can confirm that the fix works on 3.4.2, I sponsored it to precise and quantal (after adjusting the bug reference and the patch name to include git_ prefix that we use for patches coming from upstream git)

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Ritesh, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.4.2-0ubuntu6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Ritesh, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

Works fine for me , and fixes the stated bug.

nautilus 3.4.2-0ubuntu6 /precise
nautilus 3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1 /quantal

Thank you
-- ritz

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu6

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nautilus (1:3.4.2-0ubuntu6) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/symlink.patch:
    - broken symlinks created for files on gvfs mount (LP: #1090344)
 -- Ritesh Khadgaray <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:12:11 +0530

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1

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nautilus (1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_remote_symlink.patch:
    - broken symlinks created for files on gvfs mount (LP: #1090344)
 -- Ritesh Khadgaray <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:37:34 +0530

[steven kane (tropicsteve)]

file manager and graphical shell for gnome nautilus (844kb) update will no install

[Leonardo Borda (lborda)]

it works for me thanks

[Mohammad Reza Yousefi (muhammadrezay)]

With the updated version everything works fine, except for the case of browsing into /scratch on a remote server. I just renamed a file on such a location (/scratch on a remote server) and it instantly turned into a broken symbolic link (and I lost 5 GB of very precious data!!)
I am using nautilus 3.4.2

I hope there is fix around it...

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

@Mohammad

  This is a different issue, and will also be seen with upstream.

-- ritz