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

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

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
>
>   
By the way, I am not using nfs on the Linux server I mentioned. The URL 
to the file indicates sftp, and I thought I was using samba. It normally 
"just works". Of course, the share on the Windows machine is smb.