Description of problem: Opening a file with gedit, editing the file and trying to save by ^S. But then getting an error message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could not create a temporary backup file while saving <my file> gedit could not backup the old copy of the file before saving the new one. You can ignore this warning and save the file anyway, but if an error occurs while saving, you could lose the old copy of the file. Save anyway? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- By clicking "Save Anyway" I can temporarily rid from the problem. The problem persitsts since F8. My gedit version: gedit-2.22.0-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. gedit <my file> 2. File -> Save 3. Actual results: See above Expected results: File has been saved without error message Additional info: Seems to be an selinux issue. I have attached an strace (see the attached file starting by line 500 ff.)
Created attachment 305904 [details] strace of gedit
Changing Status to ASSIGNED
Now using F10, and the problem still exists (gedit-2.24.2-1.fc10.i386).
Weird: after copying the correspondent file to another one, I couldn't reproduce the described behaviour of gedit with the file copy.
I can confirm the relationship between failure of Gedit to save backup copies on exit and the status of SELinux. Gedit Version: gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10 When SELinux is disabled, the problem occurs on all newly created and existing files opened for editing using Gedit, changed and then saved. When SELinux is enabled in "enforcing" mode the problem disappears.
I think this may be a duplicate of bug #244605 - certainly, they sound very similar. That said, 244605 is CLOSED UPSTREAM but there doesn't seem to be much happening upstream to actually fix it.
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On Fedora 12 I just encountered this. All it took me to trigger it was disabling SELinux and using gedit to edit text files. I have no such problem when SELinux is enabled. The message is this: "Could not create a temporary backup file while saving /home/gsking/Desktop/notes.txt" I am given the options of Save anyway or Don't save.
Forgot to mention that I also had to reboot after making the SELinux changes.
I think my problem has been solved thanks to this comment on an Ubuntu forum. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/474579/comments/2 I would still consider this an open bug since this fix was not easily apparent.