Bug 242448 - Writing failed where copying succeeded
Summary: Writing failed where copying succeeded
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: pleaForReproductionFF3
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-04 11:09 UTC by The Source
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-02-29 13:46:35 UTC
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File with which problem happened (81.02 KB, application/zip)
2007-06-04 11:09 UTC, The Source
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Description The Source 2007-06-04 11:09:01 UTC
Description of problem:
I tried to save file to /mnt/d/temp (ntfs vlume) with firefox, but it failed.
But when I saved this file to ext3 volume and then copied it to /mnt/d/temp, all
was fine. File is attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.516-1.fc7

How reproducible:


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Comment 1 The Source 2007-06-04 11:09:02 UTC
Created attachment 156062 [details]
File with which problem happened

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2007-06-05 20:03:11 UTC
Can you please give me a log showing:

- The filesystems mounted (both the NTFS and the ext3 volumes)
- The mount options used (if you can show the mount operation being done
manually, that would be ideal)
- The errors from trying to save the file with firefox.

Also, do you have selinux enabled?

Comment 3 The Source 2007-06-08 19:18:45 UTC
It appears that can not save file with any application (only copying works).
They all say "operation not permitted".
My mount options are:
defaults,users,force,umask=0000,exec,nls=utf8

SELinux is disabled.

Looks like problem with enlarging files.

Comment 4 Szabolcs Szakacsits 2007-06-11 11:54:08 UTC
Firefox generally works fine with NTFS-3G but some versions indeed have some
file permission/ownership handling related problem. 

Can you reproduce the problem if you try these out?
1) remove the 'umask=0000' option then unmount/mount NTFS again
2) remove both the 'users' option then unmount/mount NTFS again
3) remove both the 'umask=0000' and 'users'options then unmount/mount NTFS again

If the problem persists in all cases then please send the output of
grep -i ntfs /var/log/messages

It's also possible that the relevant NTFS directory is transparently compressed
on the file system level which is not fully supported yet, so some operations
can be denied.


Comment 5 Szabolcs Szakacsits 2007-06-11 12:52:21 UTC
Bug 243594 is probably the same. Here are some hints where the bug is in
Firefox, and which affects both NTFS and FAT32 partitions:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/65164

Comment 6 The Source 2007-06-16 12:21:14 UTC
Damn, looks like it is firefox after all - I have just encountered the same
problem on my flash drive (FAT).

Comment 7 The Source 2007-06-30 19:03:49 UTC
Tried everything you say - didn't help. There was no such problem in firefox 1.5
by the way.

Comment 8 The Source 2007-07-12 16:19:26 UTC
I'm not sure what did it, but after today's update problem seem to disappear. I
was able to save files with firefox to ntfs normally. I suspect it is ntfsprogs.
Can anyone confirm this?

Comment 9 The Source 2007-07-12 16:24:15 UTC
Saving to flash drive (FAT) also works fine. Not ntfsprogs fix I suppose.

Comment 10 Szabolcs Szakacsits 2007-07-12 16:47:03 UTC
Recently this problem was fixed in firefox and I guess the fix is starting to
appearing in the distros. At least I'm seeing more and more reports from
different distros that upgrading firefox fixes the write problem.


Comment 11 The Source 2007-07-17 04:07:29 UTC
I was wrong. This is not completely fixed. Just happens more rarely.

Comment 12 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-01-02 22:52:24 UTC
Can you update to the latest ntfs/firefox and see if this failure still occurs?

Comment 13 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-01-02 22:52:42 UTC
ntfs-3g, rather.

Comment 14 The Source 2008-01-13 11:06:33 UTC
Updated everything to latest versions. (In Fedora 8 x86_64). Still getting
errors when saving files to my flash drive (fat).

Comment 15 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:34:18 UTC
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 16 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:35:26 UTC
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 17 The Source 2008-02-29 13:14:36 UTC
Looks like fixed in FF3 beta

Comment 18 Martin Stransky 2008-02-29 13:46:35 UTC
okay, closing as rawhide.


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