There is an upstream patch under consideration to be merged into master. Despite not being the perfect solution for the problem it fixes the issue.
Let's wait for it to be merged. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/249 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598183 Title: Operation not permitted while writing to symlinked fuse locations Status in gvfs: Expired Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gvfs source package in Xenial: Confirmed Bug description: Affected releases: Ubuntu from 14.10+ (14.04 was working fine) Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup a gvfs mount (I used smb and sftp shares configured via nautilus). 2. Create a symlink to the fuse-mounted location e.g. cd ~/Desktop; ln -sf /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=10.0.20.6,share=share1/symlinktest 3. Navigate with nautilus to the symlinked location, open a file available there with e.g. gedit or libreofficeand try to save it. Expected result: File is saved. Actual result: An enigmatic error message is displayed (Cannot handle "file:" locations in write mode - for gedit, or "General input/output error while accessing <path>" for libreoffice). The problems started with commit 548ba46c2ba51c4ec5b0dd8442b476f3a2a7000b fuse: Don't g_file_append_to unless O_APPEND is given. Reverting it makes the issue disappear. I have rebuild gvfs enabling debugging (#define DEBUG_ENABLED 1) and here is what I got in ~/vfs.debug: # accessing via symlink vfs_open: /smb-share:server=10.0.20.6,share=share1/grouptest/symlinktest/test open_common: flags=500002 vfs_open: -> Operation not supported # accessing via /run/user/(...) vfs_open: /smb-share:server=10.0.20.6,share=share1/grouptest/symlinktest/test open_common: flags=1100000 setup_input_stream: have stream setup_input_stream: doing read vfs_open: -> Success For reasons beyond my understanding the flags are different while accessing the file via the default gvfs-mountpoint causing the execusion to skip the modified section of client/gvfsdfusedaemon.c (returning -ENOTSUP). I am attaching the full vfs.debug created. Collapse All Comments Expand All Comments Add Comment To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1598183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
