Thanks - I have the same packages and still have the error, so something else is going on.
Symlinks are STILL being shifted from their original positions on restart/reboot/relogin. I noticed that the gnome bug report was addressed by the gvfs maintainer, so here are my current gvfs and glib packages: s...@sc-laptop:~$ dpkg -l gvfs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii gvfs 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - server ii gvfs-backends 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - backends ii gvfs-bin 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - binaries ii gvfs-fuse 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - fuse server s...@sc-laptop:~$ dpkg -l *glib2* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.1-0ubuntu The GLib library of C routines ii libglib2.0-cil 2.12.9-1 CLI binding for the GLib utility library 2.1 ii libglib2.0-dat 2.22.1-0ubuntu Common files for GLib library ii libnm-glib2 0.8~a~git.2009 network management framework (GLib shared li -- desktop icon position of symbolic links are not restored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs