It appears to be a recurrent problem. I can unmount the bound directories and mount them again, or reboot, and the problem will be gone. But after a while it recurs. I haven't found a pattern yet as to when it recurs, but I have found a new oddity:
Not only does Linux think every file is a directory, but it even thinks non-existant files are directories!!! I can "cd" to a non-existent directory completely successfully as far as the shell is concerned, it even thinks I'm in the directory. Here's a snippet I copy and pasted from my terminal window: pep...@peregrin:~/Documents$ cd aasdghf pep...@peregrin:~/Documents/aasdghf$ cd fnurk pep...@peregrin:~/Documents/aasdghf/fnurk$ cd blah pep...@peregrin:~/Documents/aasdghf/fnurk/blah$ Needless to say, I don't have a directory (nor a file) called aasdghf in my Documents directory. If I do an "ls" at this point I see the contents of the Document directory (with every file listed as a directory with the same permissions as the Documents directory itself). If I try to do the same from /home/pepijn_remote I get: pep...@peregrin:/home/pepijn_remote/Documents$ cd aasdghf bash: cd: aasdghf: No such file or directory This is quite a bad bug. It happens inpredictably (but frequently), there is no workaround and when it happens I can't continue working and have to reboot (or spend a lot of time finding all programs with open files in one of the directories so I can unmount them). It would be quite nice if somebody could please respond. -- Redirected filesystem using bind option suddenly thinks every file is a directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533761 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
