Bug#451849: openoffice.org-gnome: wiping out contents of files on shared drives when opening

[Tim Richardson <tim@tim-richardson.net>]

I noticed it in the last few days. 2.3.0.dfsg-1 and -2 came fast after
one another, but it would have very likely been one of those. I don't
often edit documents on the machine running sid, but I do sometimes and
documents getting wiped out is a bug that is quite noticeable. 


On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 23:41 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tim Richardson wrote:
> > When opening files on a shared folder (in one case, a Windows share, in 
> > another case, a share from another Debian box) the file is zeroed out 
> > when the file is opened. Irretrievable data loss. No warning. 
> > Something to do with gnome Vfs perhaps. The error occurs in Writer and 
> > Calc (the only two parts of openoffice.org I tested). 
> > I saw this happen with a number of small documents that opened just fine 
> > if they were first copied to the local hard drive.
> 
> And since when does that happen? With the upgrade to 2.3.0.dfsg-1 or
> later or before it (i.e.. with 2.2.1-x or 2.3.0-x)?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't really have either nfs nor smb here to test
> currently so...
> I'll ask upstream whether this is known...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rene
>