A colon in a podcast Title causes mkdir error

[Ian Eave]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Package: Rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4

Attempting to download any Podcast from either of the following RSS links causes an error "Error creating podcast download directory. Unable to create the download directory for file:///mnt/bigtower.media/Audio/PodCasts/MAKE%20Magazine:%20MAKE%20Podcast/CRAFT_tron_bag.m4v: Error creating directory: Input/output error"

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/rss.xml
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/make_podcast/index.xml

Reason: The directory name being created contains a colon (":" illegal character).

Podcast directory is set to a cif mounted Linux-based NAS (a Lime Technology UnRaid).
Ubuntu 9.04 running on Asus EeePC900.

All other podcasts work fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Ian Eave (ianb136)]

Thanks for the response.
I have tested again.
Using Rhythmbox v0.13.3 on Ubuntu v11.04 (Natty) with all updates installed at the date/time of this comment. System ASUS EEE PC 900. The save directory is set to a location on a CIFS-mounted NAS (Lime Technology UnRaid) running Samba.

When attempting to download the latest podcast from Makezine (http://blog.makezine.com/feed/rss) the following message was given:

"Unable to create the download directory for file:///mnt/bigtower.media/Audio/PodCasts/MAKE%20Magazine_%20MAKE%20Podcast/TEST/Make:%20Online/TYH-plywood-boat.m4v: Error creating directory: Not a directory"

Note the illegal character ":" in the attempted mkdir. The ":" is used by the publisher of the blog in the title of the blog and - presumably - Rhythmbox uses the title as the name of the dir without removing illegal chars.

When the save directory is on the local machine, the download works OK. The bug only occurs when trying to save on the NAS which is cifs mounted. Presumably that's because ":" is a reserved char in windows but not in unix.

Best regards.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]