[Bug 17470] New: nautilus keeps crashing, too many symlinks?

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Ubuntu | nautilus

           Summary: nautilus keeps crashing, too many symlinks?
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: nautilus
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: milouny at gmx.net
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


After a few releases I have a bit of a symlink-mess on my system. It worked fine
for a while, but now nautilus keeps crashing on me. (It might be that the
symlink level is too deep for nautilus to handle?)

My config: 
I'm running breezy up-to-date (as of mon oct 10, 11:00) on i386 (AMD Athlon XP
2200+)

/dev/hda5 is mounted on /media/storage (ext3) --> FILESYSTEM2 in script
/dev/hda2 is mounted on / (ext3)
/home/eric is a normal dir on / 

To spare your valuable time, I made a small script to set up the environment: 
http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/1200348/pub/bugs/nautilus-crash

Read it, set the FILESYSTEM2 variable to the mountpoint of a non-root
filesystem, and run './nautilus-crash test'

Nautilus crashes, then. Restarting it and browsing to ~/subdir-link/subdir2
doesn't make it happy either: while browsing/copying/using this directory, it
just keeps crashing on me. Often really fast, and sometimes immediately. The
easiest way to reproduce this, is this: (Yes, I know this is a weird request, sorry)
Select file1 and hit right-arrow left-arrow right-arrow left-arrow for a while. 

It's a bit weird, and may take some effort to set up the directories in a
similar way, but I hope someone can reproduce this. 


I installed libgnomevfs2-0-dbg, nautilus-dbg, and I tried making a backtrace of
nautilus, but I'm not experienced and gdb says 
Program received signal SIG33, Real-time event 33.
"(gdb) handle SIG33 nostop" didn't help much, so I hope someone can reproduce
this problem.

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