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...under /opt/mono/bin?

Nested, all appear to have the same contents. Anyone else see this on their device?
 
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No /opt/mono on my N900.

Got some more info?
What's inside the folder?
How about a list of installed packages?
 
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iDont have that directory either...
Any development packages installed from devel ?
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Originally Posted by nman View Post
...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...

... 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.
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A result of fauled up optification?
 
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A result of fauled up optification?
Need a list of what's in the folder...
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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.
 

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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.

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