Bug 492615 - fails to save files over cifs
Summary: fails to save files over cifs
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gedit
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-27 18:17 UTC by Dimitri Papadopoulos
Modified: 2009-11-19 08:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-11-19 08:44:27 UTC
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2009-03-27 18:17 UTC, Dimitri Papadopoulos
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Description Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-03-27 18:17:54 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-03-27 18:20:01 UTC
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

Comment 2 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-03-27 18:35:06 UTC
Additionally there's an error from the error popup. From stderr:

** (gedit:3737): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 13 (Invalid argument) in parse_error.

Comment 3 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-03-27 18:42:45 UTC
Mmmh... Maybe it's related after all:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/34813/comments/40

Comment 4 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-07-12 12:05:20 UTC
Still there in Fedora 11.

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Comment 6 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-11-18 11:44:16 UTC
Still there in Fedora 11 as I have already said.
Bumping 10 -> 11
Will test Fedora 12 soon.

Comment 7 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2009-11-19 08:44:27 UTC
Seems to have been fixed in Fedora 12.
Unable to reproduce this gedit problem after upgrading.


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