From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Now, for problem #2. I don't know if this is nautilus or something in smb. I open a nautilus window and put in smb://userid@pcname/directory. I can see my files on the windoz2000 pc just fine. I start coping files from my laptop (rh8.0) to the windoz2000pc and everything is coping fine and at some point it stops and generates a error (see below). Please advise on how to trap the error and who should be handling it. A window pops up with the message: Error "Invalid Parameter" while copying "bla bla filename". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open a nautilus window and connect to a windows2000 pc 2.open another nautilus window with the folders i want to transfer 3.drag the source folder to the windows2000 window. Actual Results: It starts copying files normally and then at some point halts with the error message indicated in the description. Expected Results: It would complete copying files normally. Additional info:
No initial ideas on this one. Does it let you continue copying the other files despite the error on one of the files? Can you "ls -l" the file that causes the error?
Ok, Here is the scoop. 1. first attempt it halts at file number 664. I remove the file from the folder and try again. 2. second attempt it halts at file number 664. I remove the file from the folder and try again. 3. third try it halts at file number 663. I remove the file from the folder and try again. 4. fourth try it halts at file number 663. I analyze the files where it halts and find that the first two halts halted with files that were 2.4MB and 3.1MB. During the third and fourth tries the file sizes were 8.4MB and 6.4MB. Considering the files size difference implies that the reason it halted at 664 is due to 2.4 and 3.1 being less than the halt on file number 663 where the files were 8.4 and 6.4. Since all other files that preceded these are consistently copied in the same order it appears as a cumulative function whereby as soon as a cumulative number MBs gets transfered it halts. Let me know what's next. I hope I stated this clearly.
Interesting observation, I guess that could be it. I wonder if it's specific to copying from smb, or happens anytime you reach a particular copy size.
I don't know but if you tell me how we are going to test it I'll do it.
You could just make a big local directory and try copying it, for example.
OK, I did a file copy and paste into another directory and all 1126 files copied without a problem.
Sounds like a gnome-vfs-extras bug then.
OK. What now?
Moving to gnome-vfs2-extras
Is the file that didn't copy a symlink or in any other way special?
i don't know. It just stopped midstream. It is doing this with rh9 also when coping from one hard disk with linux to a second hard disk on my laptop that is fat32.
There was a fix for something much like this recently (in 2.2.4). Copying a symlink to a fat partition would fail, and the whole copy would silently fail. Can you try gnome-vfs2 from http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ and see if that fixes it?