[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-1939) Installer thrashes disk looking for desktop file it didn't create

[James Livingston (Commented) (JIRA)]

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James Livingston commented on JBDS-1939:
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Sorry, JIRA seems to have eaten my previous comment. I am on Fedora 16 and user-direct.dirs has somehow gotten bad data in it - al the values were all set to "$HOME/".

After changing it back to the broken settings (with $HOME/), the latest nightly works fine and does not have the same problem. Thanks.
                
> Installer thrashes disk looking for desktop file it didn't create
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>
>                 Key: JBDS-1939
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-1939
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.0.GA, 5.0.0.M3
>         Environment: Linux (Fedora 16)
>            Reporter: James Livingston
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>             Fix For: 5.0.0.M5
>
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> When installing JBDS, you are given the option of creating a "Start Menu" entry for it.
> On Linux at least, if you uncheck that box and press Next it runs a script (/tmp/jdbs-desktop-chmod-$RANDOM.sh) which executes "find $HOME -name JBoss-Developer-Studio-5.0.0.M4*.desktop". My desktop has appromiately 1.6 million files under $HOME, and that step thrashes my disk for 10 minutes.
> I'm not sure why it is trying to find the desktop file since I chose not to create one. In addition, searching my entire home directory for it is not a good idea since it could take a very long time.
> Is there a reason it is looking for a .desktop file when I told it not to create one? It should already know where it is if it created one, and there is unlikely to be one if it didn't.

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