GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 604912
Symlinks considered broken even after fixed, impoosible to use dirname as cli param
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:29:18 UTC
I have a symlink which is broken because its target is under another device, currently not mounted. But even after I mount that device, nautilus still seems to consider the link broken. The icon appearance remains as broken. Within the gui, this is not a big problem because I can anyhow click the icon and the link will be retried. But before doing that, it's impossible to use the command line like this: $ nautilus /mountpoint/path/to/file, because it will do nothing.
this issue is similar to bug#81764, and -- depending on the way it is resolved -- probably a duplicate (that is, if symlink targets get completely monitored).
Still valid. Refreshing the symlink's parent folder makes it work again. I guess this requires symlink monitoring support, which is bug 546954.
*** Bug 685667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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