Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 26.04
Nautilus: 1:50.2.2-0ubuntu0.2
gvfs-backends: 1.60.0-1ubuntu0.1
After successfully authenticating to an FTP server in Nautilus, opening
the FTP root fails with “The file is not a directory”
(Portuguese: “O arquivo não é um diretório”).
The directory contains an absolute symbolic link:
webmail.example.com -> /usr/local/roundcube
The target is inaccessible within the FTP account's filesystem.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Connect to an FTP account using Nautilus.
2. Open a directory containing a symlink whose target is inaccessible.
3. Nautilus fails to display the entire directory.
Expected:
Display the directory contents, including the symlink, even if its
target cannot be accessed.
Actual:
The entire listing fails with G_IO_ERROR_NOT_DIRECTORY (code 4).
Diagnostic results:
- Authentication succeeds.
- Direct FTP LIST succeeds.
- Normal GIO enumeration fails.
- GIO enumeration with NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS succeeds and returns 9 items.
- Querying the symlink while following its target reproduces the error.
- FTP CWD to /usr/local/roundcube and /usr/local returns 550.
- Opening /public_html directly works.
- The same error was reproduced under a separate Unix user with empty
XDG directories, private D-Bus and GSettings stored in memory.
- Resetting Nautilus settings and reinstalling Nautilus and GVfs
did not resolve the problem.
This demonstrates that the failure does not depend on settings
imported from an older home directory.
A regression from Ubuntu 24.04 has not been verified.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: gvfs-backends 1.60.0-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-38.38-generic 7.0.14
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.34.1-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 7 10:32:44 2026
InstallationDate: Installed on 2026-10-06 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" - Release amd64
(20260826)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute wayland-session
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FTP directory listing fails with “Not a directory” when a symlink
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