GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47927
symbolic links on FTP and SFTP broken
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Use Nautilus to view <ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/>. Notice the large number of broken symbolic links. However, these links are not broken; they link to subdirectories that exist and they work perfectly well in any other FTP client I have tried. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-03-30 12:11:28 ---- Sounds like bug 43925. I wonder why this started happening again? ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-04-27 12:56:28 ---- Hmm, I can't reproduce this. ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/ shows a large number of normal-looking, non-broken symbolic links. We used to have a bug like this (bug 43925) that was fixed a while back. Is it possible that the reporter is using an old Nautilus? ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-04-27 13:00:00 ---- Since this works fine on my machine, and I know we used to have a bug like this but it was fixed a while back, I'm going to mark it WORKSFORME. If someone can still reproduce it, please reopen this bug and add info about Nautilus version, platform, etc. ------- Additional Comments From liblit@acm.org 2001-04-27 13:36:33 ---- I am certainly still seeing the bug as recently as version 1.0.2, installed using "nautilus-1.0.2-ximian.2.i386.rpm" as part of Ximian's GNOME 1.4 distribution. I'm on a Red Hat 7.1 / Linux 2.4.3 / Intel box. <sullivan@eazel.com>, when you say that it works fine for you, are you using something more recent than 1.0.2? ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-04-27 14:10:45 ---- Yes, I'm using CVS HEAD. So maybe this was fixed since 1.0.2, or maybe it was re-broken by Ximian's packaging somehow? Can anyone reproduce this with the CVS HEAD build? ------- Additional Comments From liblit@acm.org 2001-04-27 14:36:27 ---- OK, if you are not seeing the bug in CVS HEAD, then I'm pretty willing to believe that it was fixed some time after 1.0.2. That easily explains why I'm seeing it and you're not. Of course, it would be really swell if some Nautilus developer could positively affirm having fixed the bug.... ------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-05-01 12:38:01 ---- Not a 1.0.3 blocker. Moving to "later" as P3. ------- Additional Comments From liblit@acm.org 2001-07-05 11:33:56 ---- In earlier discussions on this bug, there was some question about whether it had been fixed in a more recent release than the reporter (me) was using. For the record, I'm now using 1.0.3 and still seeing the bug just as originally reported. :-( ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2001-07-23 00:32:21 ---- Taking bugs previously assigned to Pavel, assigning them to myself. Will parse them out at my leisure , but many are GnomeVFS bugs we should look at for 2.0 ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:19 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Still happening
Is this possibly a gnome-vfs problem, not a nautilus problem?
FYI, I still have this difficult with 2.1.2.
Nautilus 2.1.5 still shows broken links at that url.
Nautilus 2.2.1, still broken.
Seems of a dup of bug #92615
*** Bug 92615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 92615 statest that this is not a gnome-vfs problem.
Still in GNOME-2.6, bumping Version accordingly.
*** Bug 135461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Perhaps obvious, but this is also true for sftp, using Nautilus 2.6.3. The workaround (sort of) is to simply enter the name of the symlink in the location bar (ending with a slash /).
With the ssh:// protocol the folder symlinks show up properly, but can't be opened with double click.
*** Bug 144057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems to pretty much work now starting in 2.8, can somebody else who was experiencing this on previous versions confirm/test?
It works for me in Nautilus but not in the file selection dialog (it opens the link as if it were a file). But maybe it's a different bug.
Please please please, don't make a mess of this bug. sftp and ftp are two different code bases, so whoever retitled this bug from "ftp symlink support is broken" and talked about sftp was wrong doing it in this bug. ftp support works for me in GNOME 2.8, I believe it was fixed in that version. sftp symlinks are known to be broken, but put your comments about that in bug #153679 Closing this bug, if ftp symlinks have issues for you in 2.8, please reopen this bug, if you have additionnal remarks about sftp symlinks, please put them in bug #153679