Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 492615
fails to save files over cifs
Last modified: 2009-11-19 03:44:27 EST
Created attachment 337049 [details] screenshot of gedit error Description of problem: gedit fails to save files on CIFS shares cat /nas/dimitri/foo.txt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gedit-2.24.3-3.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a file on a CIFS share. For example: $ cat >/nas/dimitri/foo.txt <<EOF > 1234 > EOF $ $ ls -l /nas/dimitri/foo.txt -rwxrwxrwx 1 dimitri dimitri 5 Mar 27 2009 /nas/dimitri/foo.txt $ $ mount | grep nas //192.168.1.3/dimitri on /nas/dimitri type cifs (rw,mand,noexec,nosuid,nodev) $ 2. Edit that file. 3. Try to save. Actual results: Error messages pop up: Could not save the file ... Unexpected error: Invalid argument The file is not saved. Expected results: The file is saved without questions. Additional info: I do understand this may be a cifs/smbfs limitation. However it is a real nuisance. I think it should be worked around if possible.
I have found the following bug report, but it's not the same error message so it's probably unrelated: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336738
Additionally there's an error from the error popup. From stderr: ** (gedit:3737): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 13 (Invalid argument) in parse_error.
Mmmh... Maybe it's related after all: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/34813/comments/40
Still there in Fedora 11.
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Still there in Fedora 11 as I have already said. Bumping 10 -> 11 Will test Fedora 12 soon.
Seems to have been fixed in Fedora 12. Unable to reproduce this gedit problem after upgrading.