Some of Sid won't overwrite CIFS shared files
A week or two ago I suddenly couldn't overwrite email attachments to a
share on the current Etch Samba. No real problem, I can save them by a
different name, delete the original, then rename the new one. Be fixed
soon, I'm sure...
But it wasn't, and on further investigation, many other programs have
problems but not all. PCB won't overwrite, and since it logs to a
separate window, it fails to do so fairly silently. Unison won't
overwrite, KEdit won't, GEdit will, KWrite won't, AbiWord will, pcmanfm
won't, mc won't, GVim will, though it took me an unreasonable time to
find out how. There would seem to be some kind of Gnome/KDE divide, in
that only the definitely Gnomish programs seem able to do the overwrite.
I'm using the Gnome desktop, though I don't believe that should
adversely affect non-Gnome programs. I've looked into dependencies, but
that doesn't seem very useful. All will overwrite local files without
difficulty.
Does anyone see this and know instantly what the problem is, or at least
which package is likely to be responsible? I didn't take the original
problem seriously enough to note which packages had just been updated,
and I'm not really sure now when it happened. More than a week ago, less
than a month, but Sid has really been getting hammered lately, probably
a couple of hundred packages updated in that time.
I've looked into mount.cifs, but I'm using noperm in fstab, and at the
moment, all the files under test are world-writeable on the server, with
guest access. Since the server is CIFS-aware, the underlying server
ownerships and permissions show through in a client file manager.
All the programs which won't overwrite will save to a new filename, and
the file managers will delete. They just won't do both at once, claiming
that the file or directory isn't found.
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