-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 8:31 PM, Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 17 December 2007 06:44:40 pm Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> Another "Save As" anomaly is happening to me right now. >>> >>> I've created a bugzilla. Bug 349422 >>> >>> If others are having similar "Save As" issues, I'd appreciate some >>> votes on the bug. >>> >>> Greg >> My message seems to be lost. >> Have you tried advice in this mail: >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-12/msg01114.html >> >> That is another thread that you started on the same topic. >> I'll post this to bugzilla too. > > No I have not tried disabling locking. > > Since I'm only having problems (so far) when the doc is on a Samba > share, I'd rather stay away from that approach. > > Greg
A problem I thought I had fixed by changing the oplock veto for a particular samba share has resurfaced. I am now getting a repeat of the issue where saving in Microsoft document formats to a cifs share fails with the 'could not save backup copy' error message. (OO format save without major problems). To be honest I am not certain that the issue with OOCalc is related or not, as to date I have had no problems with spreadsheet files, but I have had some very bizarre issues with ODB files. The 'backup copy' issue is an old problem (first reported elsewhere in about 2005 for all documents), but the reason it now effects documents of one format and not others is not clear to me. It does seem to be associated with samba/cifs file locking on *NIX servers (AFAIK this is not a problem with shares hosted on Windoze machines, I have yet to perform a test on samba share from a Windoze session ). This could be a timing issue, OO formats do lock for a while when overwriting, but do not report errors. In earlier versions of OO I did experience lock ups and crashes related to this issue. But it was to some extent fixable by configuring the locking options on the samba share concerned (IIRC the crashing stopped). I did experiment with the OO share locking disabling suggestion suggested elsewhere briefly. It did not fix the problem, and with the particular way I tested it was implicated in a server thrash which took out my server. (For obvious reasons I am not trying that one again :-) ).... I can live with this (I only save to MS formats if I need to share with third parties). However, there is some evidence that either openOffice is expecting samba/cifs to behave in a manner it does not, or is doing something that samba/cifs does not support. At the moment I cannot provide hard details on what is happening, (e.g. logs of what open office is doing, what samba is doing etc). At some point I will spend some time setting up an appropriate set of tests, and then raise a more detailed report. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaPkgasN0sSnLmgIRAi9VAJsGbRHnVTiQbef/KanFAlZf3vAZEQCghtX4 /3xxA97lHVNdKx5XbtOj2/g= =wQLc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
