721318 - “Unknown location” after the Profile Directory path in Troubleshooting Information (encfs; unclear message)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

1. Help → Troubleshooting Information
2. Look at end of the “Profile Directory” line:

If the “Include account names” checkbox is unchecked:
  Profile Directory | [Open Containing Folder] (Unknown location)
If the checkbox is checked:
  Profile Directory | /home/(…username…)/.thunderbird/fugg69vt.(…profilename…) (Unknown location)

What is that “Unknown location”? It knows, at least, where the profile is.

Comment 1

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

It means that we couldn't figure out whether the profile directory was local or on the network.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

(reproduced with versions 10.0b4 for Linux-i686 and Linux-x86_64, 10.0b5 and the current Daily for Linux-x86_64)

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

> /home/(…username…)/.thunderbird/fugg69vt.

Actually, it’s not exactly like that, because the user’s home directory is not /home/(…username…), but /home/(…a hidden (dot) directory with encfs…)/(…username…)

The filesystem is mounted like this:

encfs on /home/.(…skipped…) type fuse.encfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other)

Comment 4

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

Yes, in general I don't think we can tell whether an encfs is local or on the network.

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

OK. The message is very unclear for me, because I almost never use network file systems like that.

Comment 6

[Martin Schuster]

I see the same "(Unknown location)" for my NFS-mounted homedir (so the location is "filername:/some/path")