Seems like others recently have had the same issue on 22.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1483018/home-user-desktop-and-public- folders-show-as-type-link-broken-inode-symlink
Also on 20.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1482903/home-directories- turned-into-symbolic-links-without-telling-me-the-reason These posts are recent ~1 month. Temporary fix is to have at least one file in the folders so as to avoid them being deleted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-user-dirs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2036597 Title: Strange permissions and/or links to default directories in home folder (Music, Pictures, Public, Templates and Videos)) Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Can't enter these folders. This is on an almost fresh install of Mantic. martin@ThinkPad-P14s-Gen-3:~$ cd Music bash: cd: Music: Too many levels of symbolic links martin@ThinkPad-P14s-Gen-3:~$ ls -l total 2988 drwxrwxr-x 3 martin martin 4096 Sep 18 12:44 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Sep 19 13:48 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 19 martin martin 4096 Sep 18 12:42 Documents drwxr-xr-x 4 martin martin 4096 Sep 19 13:48 Downloads drwx------ 5 martin martin 4096 Sep 18 16:24 Dropbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 martin martin 18 Sep 19 13:56 Music -> /home/martin/Music lrwxrwxrwx 1 martin martin 21 Sep 19 13:56 Pictures -> /home/martin/Pictures lrwxrwxrwx 1 martin martin 19 Sep 19 13:56 Public -> /home/martin/Public drwxrwxr-x 3 martin martin 4096 Sep 18 16:25 R -rw------- 1 martin martin 3029503 Sep 19 14:08 references.bib drwx------ 13 martin martin 4096 Sep 19 13:56 snap lrwxrwxrwx 1 martin martin 22 Sep 19 13:56 Templates -> /home/martin/Templates lrwxrwxrwx 1 martin martin 19 Sep 19 13:56 Videos -> /home/martin/Videos ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10 Package: nautilus 1:45~rc-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-5.5-generic 6.5.0 Uname: Linux 6.5.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Sep 19 14:19:32 2023 InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-18 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230918) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: nautilus-dropbox 2019.02.14-1.2 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.49.92-2ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/2036597/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
