Bug 811399

Summary:	baobab does not always skip ntfs symlinks/Junction Points
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Simon Peeters <peeters.simon>
Component:	baobab	Assignee:	Rui Matos <tiagomatos>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	erik-fedora, liblit, peeters.simon, tiagomatos
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Description Simon Peeters 2012-04-10 21:58:28 UTC

Description of problem:
when i let baobab scan a windows 7 partition it keeps getting into infinite loops because of some symlinks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.4.0

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. let baobab scan an ntfs partition with this special kind of symlink
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Actual results:
baobab follows the symlink

Expected results:
baobab skips the symlink

Additional info:
there is something special about this kind of symlinks,
stat reports that it is a symlink, but that it has 2 links, which is the only difference I see from the normal symlinks

Comment 1 Erik van Pienbroek 2012-08-18 13:00:49 UTC

This bug is caused by a bug in the ntfs-3g package.

A bugreport was filed upstream and they've already proposed a patch which resolves this issue: http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29578

I just filed a ticket to the ntfs-3g maintainer in Fedora asking to apply this patch in the Fedora ntfs-3g package: bug 849332

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-08-24 18:45:50 UTC

ntfs-3g-2012.1.15-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-12279/ntfs-3g-2012.1.15-3.fc17

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-09-04 22:57:03 UTC

ntfs-3g-2012.1.15-3.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.