Bug#542451: nautilus: Nautilus displays an empty folder for an afs-mounted symlink

[Svante Signell]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 19 aot 2009  20:12 +0200, Svante Signell a crit : 
> > Nautilus from testing (2.26.3-1) shows a blank entry for an AFS-mounted 
> > volume using a symlink: afs_srs -> /afs/.../srs/
> > 
> > No user or group ID has changes, I just upgraded from lenny to squeeze.
> 
> Sorry, but I don’t understand your report. What is this symlink? What is
> the directory it is pointing to? Is it already mounted or are you trying
> to mount it this way?

The afs directory has been mounted already. Everything works as expected
from a terminal. It does not in Nautilus, however, with the graphic interface.
Checking the properties shows that it is a symlink: 

Name: afs_srs
Type: Link to folder (inode/directory)
Link target: /afs/.../srs
Contents: nothing

Location: /home/srs
Volume: Unknown

Free space: 8.6 GB

$ echo $HOME
/home/srs
$ pwd
/home/srs
$ ls -l afs_srs
afs_srs -> /afs/.../srs/

Other symlinks works in Nautilus, like a link from $HOME/directory to
$HOME/Desktop, the contents are shown properly.

The following warning is issued when running nautilus:
** (nautilus:26516): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
supported

Is this related to my problem?

> > This means that programs using nautilus, like evolution and iceweasel 
> > cannot save files there! The version in stable/lenny (2.20.0-7) worked OK; 
> > what has changed??
> 
> The VFS has been entirely rewritten. Nothing too important.
>