Public bug reported:
Uninstalling a gnome-shell extension removes its folder in
".local/share/gnome-shell/extensions", recursively as it should, but
dereferencing symlinks!! Here is what happens and how to reproduce:
Someone (me) installs an extension to try it out. While tweaking with
its configuration, to try to customize it, I put a symlink within its
extensions directory, pointing to somewhere else in my home folder. For
example, in my case, a symlink to "~/Pictures/Icons", to be able to set
it up with one of many custom icons I've created. Uninstall the
extension later as it's not to my liking, extensions folder is gone, as
well as my ~/Pictures/Icons folder's contents in my home directory.
This could have been a lot worse, if the symlink was pointing higher up,
since its doing a recursive delete.
In this case, extension was installed as well as removed from the gnome-
extensions website. Usually I install from website, but uninstall from
extensions manager. Do not know if it happens with extensions manager
as well.
Please fix this, because I was frankly shocked that this happened, and
could lead to very bad things (I've never seen a rm -rf follow symlinks,
and wouldn't even want to know what flag would do that and why you would
want that).
What would expect to happen: A simple rm -rf recursive, non-
dereferencing removal of extensions directory.
What happened instead: A recursive removal, dereferencing symlinks,
which can lead anywhere, and be very dangerous. Symlinks may have been
placed in there if someone was working on or tweaking an extension.
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
gnome-shell 42.5
chrome-gnome-shell 10.1
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998529
Title:
Uninstalling extensions dereferences symlinks, risking data loss
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Uninstalling a gnome-shell extension removes its folder in
".local/share/gnome-shell/extensions", recursively as it should, but
dereferencing symlinks!! Here is what happens and how to reproduce:
Someone (me) installs an extension to try it out. While tweaking with
its configuration, to try to customize it, I put a symlink within its
extensions directory, pointing to somewhere else in my home folder.
For example, in my case, a symlink to "~/Pictures/Icons", to be able
to set it up with one of many custom icons I've created. Uninstall
the extension later as it's not to my liking, extensions folder is
gone, as well as my ~/Pictures/Icons folder's contents in my home
directory. This could have been a lot worse, if the symlink was
pointing higher up, since its doing a recursive delete.
In this case, extension was installed as well as removed from the
gnome-extensions website. Usually I install from website, but
uninstall from extensions manager. Do not know if it happens with
extensions manager as well.
Please fix this, because I was frankly shocked that this happened, and
could lead to very bad things (I've never seen a rm -rf follow
symlinks, and wouldn't even want to know what flag would do that and
why you would want that).
What would expect to happen: A simple rm -rf recursive, non-
dereferencing removal of extensions directory.
What happened instead: A recursive removal, dereferencing symlinks,
which can lead anywhere, and be very dangerous. Symlinks may have
been placed in there if someone was working on or tweaking an
extension.
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
gnome-shell 42.5
chrome-gnome-shell 10.1
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