Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xdg-user-dirs
Applications hang (and often the entire system) when a broken symbolic link is
used as an xdg directory.
On my system, ~/Pictures is a symbolic link to /mnt/stuff/images/ which is
often not available at login time. If I try to do an 'ls' of that directory, or
open the Save As.. dialog in firefox, that application hangs and often the
system hangs aswell.
Straight after a Gnome login, the Pictures folder is not displayed at all in
Nautilus - it only appears once the target folder has been mounted.
System is Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy).
xdg-usr-dirs is version: 0.9-0ubuntu2
The offending link target is mounted via CIFS, but I haven't tried to
reproduce the problem on other filesystems yet.
** Affects: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Broken symbolic links as xdg directories cause application or system hang
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173099
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