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Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

...under /opt/mono/bin?

Nested, all appear to have the same contents. Anyone else see this on their device?

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

No /opt/mono on my N900.

Got some more info?
What's inside the folder?
How about a list of installed packages?

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

iDont have that directory either...
Any development packages installed from devel ?

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

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Originally Posted by nman (Post 1305774)

...under /opt/mono/bin?

Nested, all appear to have the same contents. Anyone else see this on their device?

I haven't installed mono and AFAIK there is nothing that depends on it, so I doubt it's been pulled in with another app.

Mono FYI is...

Quote:

... an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

More info at mono-project.com

If it's in /opt/ then it's not causing any trouble anyway.

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

A result of fauled up optification?

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1305823)

A result of fauled up optification?

Need a list of what's in the folder...

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

OK, here goes. I have been toying with the idea of installing MonoDevelop for a while but the size (it weighs in at over 66MB with all the dependencies, and that is just the download size) had discouraged me. This thread has provided the ~~excuse~~ final push to make the call. The result is rather dubious: the IDE is an unmodified desktop application with a menu bar impossible to read on such a small screen. I may give it another try when I am less tired but I digress.

The OP's problem is this:

Code:

N900:~# ls -l /opt/mono/b*    

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Dec 18 22:30 /opt/mono/bin

 -> /usr/bin

N900:~# ls -l /usr/bin/X*

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            1 Nov 28 23:11 /usr/bin/X11

 -> .

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1117148 Jun 20 14:20 /usr/bin/Xorg

N900:~#

/opt/mono/bin is symlinked to /usr/bin. There is a new folder X11 in /usr/bin which is nothing but a symlink to . (the dot, i.e. the current folder). I assume the idea is that whatever libraries mono uses that access /usr/bin/X11 will get /usr/bin instead but the side effect is that X11 appears as an infinitely nested folder.

To the OP: chill out, there's no harm, it does not take any storage space at all.

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

Yeah I figured out it was a looping symlink.
The only annoyance is that when I search for a file say with winscp, the search loops also and takes a long time (it does eventually move on, oddly enough)
Luckily I have a spare device so I can test removing it.

Re: Why is there a LOT of "X11" folders

Of course it moves on. It stops recursing once it reaches the maximum path length limit.