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nautilus package

Nautilus empties files over ssh

Bug #668264 reported by vensires on 2010-10-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #658069: Empty files written over gvfs by some editors. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

After upgrading (yesterday) to ubuntu 10.10, I used "nautilus" to connect over ssh to another filesystem. I opened a file using "geany", modified it, saved it and... the remote file got emptied. This happened in an apache configuration file and (to test it further) in a simple remote text file. The file's size in nautilus' status bar, was kept the same as the original but opening the file with vim over ssh showed it empty(as it really was). Maybe I needed to wait for some time before closing "geany"? Of course, I didn't have any kind of strange behaviours with 10.4.

More Info
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I use a Pentium III PC with 384 MB ram, all packages upgraded and up-to-date.
Original installation before reaching 10.10 was: Ubuntu 10.4.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 29 13:17:35 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.2)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

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vensires (vensires) wrote on 2010-10-29:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GConfNonDefault.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (64.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (779 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
usr_lib_nautilus.txt Edit (713 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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vensires (vensires) wrote on 2010-10-29:

I just discovered that I don't have the problem above with gedit. Haven't tried other editors. I think though that, since nautilus makes the connection, nautilus is the one to transfer the local file to the remote folder and not the editor itself. Geany works as expected with local files, but not with remote files.