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It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a |
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certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an |
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email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no |
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success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control |
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for several months. |
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With any file manager this directory is accessible. With Konqueror, it is |
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likewise accessible. Only with Firefox and Epiphany, as far as I can tell, |
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is this happening. |
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I have copied the contents of the directory, without the .git control |
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baggage, and the same happens. |
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This happened concurrently with an upgrade to a new firefox and xulrunner: |
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mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2. I down graded by masking this version (and |
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xulrunner were also downgraded when I did this), and the same problem |
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persisted. I had run revdep-rebuild after upgrading to the newer firefox, |
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by the way. |
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This reminds me of a situation some months ago, when a specific home |
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directory was impossible to browse in either nautilus, or firefox. This was |
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due to a peculiar file, I cannot remember the name, but bizaare. When I |
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finally found this file deep in the subdirectories, the problem went away. |
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Thinking the same thing was going no here, I have looked at the directory, |
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but superficially I have seen nothing. Except a file ".directory" left |
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there by dolphin. I have recently installed kde 4.3.0, and started liking |
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it a bit, and playing around with it. |
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I don't know what else to look for, or what method to use, to look for |
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bizaare bits in a tree. |
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I suppose I will copy all the files over, one at a time. Suggestions would |
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be appreciated. |
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Alan Davis |
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when |
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you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... |
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So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. |
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----Richard Feynman |