Ubuntu
gvfs package

posix apis unreliable on files mounted over gvfs, e.g. truncate, open, causes OpenOffice.org to fail to save

Bug #317587 reported by Chris Cheney
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gvfs (Fedora)
Fix Released
Medium
gvfs (Suse)
Fix Released
High
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04-beta
Hardy
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Intrepid
Invalid
High
Unassigned
Jaunty
Fix Released
High
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04-beta

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gvfs

This bug that Caolan (RedHat) mentioned to me may be the cause of most of the problems with OOo working via gvfs filesystems.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479199

Pay particular attention to the test program and the last few comments on the bug.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/gvfs
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in gvfs:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → jaunty-alpha-4
status: New → Confirmed
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in gvfs:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
In , Pmladek (pmladek) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=265640)
standalone testcase (testme.c)

This bug is originally reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479199. I have reproduced it on openSUSE-11.1 and SLED11-rc1 as well.

The posix functions (e.g. ftruncate) do not work correctly on files that are mouted over gvfs (e.g. ssh:// or smb:// or sftp://). It breaks OpenOffice.org to save files.

The problem could be reproduced by a standalone test-case created by Caolan McNamara (Red Hat developer).

Steps to reproduce:

gcc testme.c
cd /tmp
echo test > test.txt
~/a.out
size is 0

(all ok)

cd ~/.gvfs/sftp for somewhere...
echo test > test.txt
~/a.out
size is 5
truncate claimed to work, but file size is still 5
can't open test.txt
: No such file or directory

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gvfs:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
milestone: jaunty-alpha-4 → ubuntu-9.04-beta
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs:
status: Unknown → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Was just committed upstream:
  http://bzr-playground.gnome.org/gvfs/branches/gnome-2-24/revision/1949

So this will get fixed with the next GNOME point release.

Changed in gvfs:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
In , Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Note the fix for this has been committed to upstream gvfs already for the next point release.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.1.7-0ubuntu1

---------------
gvfs (1.1.7-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix build on some platforms
    - ftp: Fix short read errors (lp: #208750)
    - gphoto2: Make it work on iphone
    - sftp: Fix symlink creation
    - fuse: Better support of truncation, fixing OOo save (lp: #317587)
    - proxy monitors: Support mount operations, etc
    - gvfs-mount: add --device commandline support
    - sftp: Fix protocol bug that made some servers not work (lp: #286053)
    - general support for query_info over streams, implemented for smb, sftp
    - Initial support for .xdg-volume-info reading (lp: #269159)
    - fix trash crasher (lp: #332554)
    - use ssh config (lp: #264803)
  * debian/patches/02_support_xdg_volume_info.patch:
    - the new version fixes this issue
  * debian/patches/91_upstream_change_fix_trash_crasher.patch:
    - upstream change to fix a trash crasher (lp: #333791)
  * debian/rules:
    - shlibs version update

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:10:40 +0100

Changed in gvfs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
In , Gburt (gburt) wrote :

Can we get a swamp id for this SLED 11 update?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs (Suse):
status: In Progress → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
In , Swamp-suse (swamp-suse) wrote :

The SWAMPID for this issue is 27321.
Please submit the patch and patchinfo file using this ID.
(https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/27321)

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs (Suse):
status: Incomplete → In Progress
Revision history for this message
In , Vbotka-novell (vbotka-novell) wrote :

(In reply to comment #4)
> The SWAMPID for this issue is 27321.
> Please submit the patch and patchinfo file using this ID.
> (https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/27321)

Christian, it is not correct that this bug is recorded as "Additional Bug-IDs" in MaintenanceTracker-27321 . Would it be possible to correct it ?

Revision history for this message
In , Swamp-suse (swamp-suse) wrote :

Update released for: gvfs, gvfs-backends, gvfs-debuginfo, gvfs-debugsource, gvfs-devel, gvfs-fuse, gvfs-lang, libgvfscommon0
Products:
SLE-DEBUGINFO 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
SLE-DESKTOP 11 (i386, x86_64)
SLE-SDK 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
SLE-SERVER 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)

Revision history for this message
In , Gburt-l (gburt-l) wrote :

Closing since update was released.

Revision history for this message
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Hardy):
status: New → Won't Fix
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs (Suse):
importance: Unknown → High
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gvfs (Fedora):
importance: Unknown → Medium
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