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   On Wed, 8/13/2025 5:32 PM, Russell Gadd wrote:   
   > Mint 22.1 Mate. Anyone seen rapidly increasing ~/.xsession-errors file with   
   this sort of message?   
   > (caja:1616): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL   
   > GFileInfo created without standard::symlink-target   
   >   
   > tried to find problem via ChatGPT but no success   
   >   
      
   You don't need ChatGPT to track things like that down.   
      
   The "answer" is sort of available here, but the "disposition",   
   how do we fix it, is evident by looking at the lineup info   
   on Distrowatch for the packaging.   
      
      "2023-11-26"   
      
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/+bug/2044635   
      
         "Seems caja 1.27.2 has fixed that issue; please merge it from master   
   asap"   
      
   Something tells me "this will be messy". Getting to that revision   
   number or later, will be tough. Not even a PPA guarantees a   
   clean transition, because Clem Customization could be affected   
   if you change the "package alignment".   
      
      https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=414780   
      
   Here is a picture of my situation in a virtual machine.   
   You can see in Distrowatch, the sequence of release numbers for   
   the MATE in LinuxMint, versus the MATE upstream, and it appears   
   Clem is not "moving fast and breaking things". The API version   
   is not changing, so he does not have to rebuild all his customization.   
   The release numbers would have "moved faster" if there was not   
   a secret reason to be "dragging ones feet" about it. That is my interpretation   
   of the info in Distrowatch.   
      
      [Picture]   
      
       https://i.postimg.cc/yNhDDphd/LM221-MATE-Caja-Is-Old.gif   
      
   If it bothers you, you could install another DE than MATE, like a Cinnamon.   
      
   If the whole desktop did not rely on that file and its release   
   number, this would be a LOT easier to fix. Clem could fix it,   
   but the answers/comments I've seen from Clem before, he deflects   
   to upstream, and that's not what is required in this case. I get the   
   impression, Clem only wants to update MATE about every five years,   
   as a forklift change. It's not like magically in LM22.2 this would   
   be fixed. I would bet the sub-version would not change enough to   
   achieve any result, let alone the fix you want.   
      
      Paul   
      
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