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 2. 3. 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
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
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
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.