[opensuse-gnome] gvfs-backends bug in version 1.14
Hi! I wonder if I perhaps I am the only openSUSE user experiencing problems sharing files and directories with Nautilus and Thunar over samba? The problems started -if I remeber right- somewhere with SuSE12.1, today I use 12.3. In SuSE13.1 with gvfs 1.18 the problem seems to be solved. I've been using SuSE since 8.2 and have never experienced any problems related to samba-shares with Nautilus before. I am using samba because it is very handy having both Linux, Windows and Mac OS X machines in my network. With one exception I also share files between my Linux-machines using samba. The problem occurs when I try to copy files or whole directories to or from a samba share. Copying starts but hangs (freezes) when 2-30% has been copied. It's impossible to stop the copying if I don't kill the process. The other day I did a deeper search around the problem and found an ubuntu-bug-report that describes -as long as I've read- exactly the same problem (despite I never read or play any files over samba). -The ubuntu-report referred to a bugzilla.gnome-bug that reports the same issue. It seems the bug is related to the gvfs-smb part of the gvfs-backends with gvfs versions over 1.12. No similar problems with gvfs-ftp: Ftp works allright. The filed ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1075923 And the related gnome bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697782 I opened a thread in the forum: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/494777-Problem-copying-from-samba... but just got one encouraging reply about trying to upgrade gvfs (according to the ubuntu-bug report). The upgrade got somewhat disastrous ;-> and I downgraded again. My own system: SuSE12.3 kernel 3.7.10-1.24-desktop-X86_64 gvfs-1.14.2-2.1.2.x86_64 and the same versions for gvfs-backends, gvfs-backend-afc, gvfs-fuse and libgvfscommon0-1.14.2-2.1.2.x86_64 I was about filing a bug report, but as I read along was adviced to try the mailing lists first, thats why I write. Of course you could say I could switch to SuSE13.1 but that's no solution for me. I've got the 12.3 now after some 7 months very well configured with all the resources I want: among the worst builds-configurations was gnuradio but have got some other heavy build as well. -Now the 12.3 version isn't obsolete yet, but do you think the will be a fix for the gvfs-smb-error? Or do you know any way to work around it? (I know I can use Dolphin, but prefer Nautilus and Thunar). Best regards Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:30 +0100, Lars Edman @ LinuxSuSE wrote:
I was about filing a bug report,
A bug report would be a good idea. I threw up a scratch build with the upstream patch [1]. I don't intend to test this myself, but if you're lucky it might fix your problem and not break anything. Good luck [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:Golbats_Everywhere:branches...
Well Thank you Michael! Your patch worked like a charm with Thunar/Nautilus and samba-shares and broke nothing :-)! It introduced some timeout problems to ftp-connections, but I really don't care. I prefer using Filezilla and TLS. Can I ask you two more things? -If i file a bug report, should I mention your patch or restrict the report to the problems with the v. 1.14.2-2.1.2.x86_64? -This is the first time I subscribed to a mailing list: Is it safe to use your "civil" ordinary mail-address? -I see your using gmail. The reason I ask is that a couple of years ago I filed a bug report to Debian. And six months after that report I had got so spammed down that I had to close that mail-account/address. -As long as I could see my mail-address doesn't seem to be published, but as I said, I'm a beginner in these matters. I would be glad for some advice in this matter! Best regards! And thank you for the patch!! Lars sön 2014-01-26 klockan 23:26 -0600 skrev Michael Catanzaro:
On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:30 +0100, Lars Edman @ LinuxSuSE wrote:
I was about filing a bug report,
A bug report would be a good idea.
I threw up a scratch build with the upstream patch [1]. I don't intend to test this myself, but if you're lucky it might fix your problem and not break anything.
Good luck
[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:Golbats_Everywhere:branches...
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On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 11:28 +0100, Lars Edman @ LinuxSuSE wrote:
Well Thank you Michael!
Your patch worked like a charm with Thunar/Nautilus and samba-shares and broke nothing :-)! It introduced some timeout problems to ftp-connections, but I really don't care. I prefer using Filezilla and TLS.
Can I ask you two more things? -If i file a bug report, should I mention your patch or restrict the report to the problems with the v. 1.14.2-2.1.2.x86_64?
You should mention it, but also mention the regression with FTP connections. The maintainers will have to decide if the tradeoff is worth it to do an update for everybody. (Hangs are worse than timeout issues, but breaking something that works 10 months in to a stable release is worse than leaving something that's been broken the whole time.) Glad the build fixed your issue. :)
-This is the first time I subscribed to a mailing list: Is it safe to use your "civil" ordinary mail-address? -I see your using gmail.
Yup: Google's spamblocker is excellent, so no need to worry about that. Also, when the mail is archived on lists.opensuse.org, the domain on the address will be censored. Spambots will only see mike.catanzaro@xxxx or lars.edman@xxxx
Thank you Michael, for sorting things out to me! I think I'll reregister with a webmail address after all ;-). I looked deeper into the ftp-regression and found out there was a restrictive setting I had made in my own ftp-server. I.e. the timeout also occured in SuSE13.1 with gvfsd 1.18. Connecting to and copying from an ordinary open ftp-server, like the swedish sunet.se raised no problems at all, neither with gvfsd-1.18 or your patch. I'll try to formulate and file a bug report today! Regards Lars mån 2014-01-27 klockan 08:41 -0600 skrev Michael Catanzaro:
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 11:28 +0100, Lars Edman @ LinuxSuSE wrote:
Well Thank you Michael!
Your patch worked like a charm with Thunar/Nautilus and samba-shares and broke nothing :-)! It introduced some timeout problems to ftp-connections, but I really don't care. I prefer using Filezilla and TLS.
Can I ask you two more things? -If i file a bug report, should I mention your patch or restrict the report to the problems with the v. 1.14.2-2.1.2.x86_64?
You should mention it, but also mention the regression with FTP connections. The maintainers will have to decide if the tradeoff is worth it to do an update for everybody. (Hangs are worse than timeout issues, but breaking something that works 10 months in to a stable release is worse than leaving something that's been broken the whole time.)
Glad the build fixed your issue. :)
-This is the first time I subscribed to a mailing list: Is it safe to use your "civil" ordinary mail-address? -I see your using gmail.
Yup: Google's spamblocker is excellent, so no need to worry about that. Also, when the mail is archived on lists.opensuse.org, the domain on the address will be censored. Spambots will only see mike.catanzaro@xxxx or lars.edman@xxxx
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