gedit is unable to open files in some nfs3 mounts

[Arne]

Binary package hint: gedit

I have two nfs servers, one runs a kernel-space nfs3, the other runs unfs3.
I'm able to mount shares from either nfs server (with the nolock option):

192.168.2.10:/homeExt /homeExt nfs defaults,nolock
192.168.2.8:/home /mnt nfs defaults,nolock

and I'm also able to open the files saved there with cat or vim. But when I try to open files with gedit in /mnt (the unfs3 share) gedit says it could not open the file and gives no further information. (Error message in German: Die Datei »/mnt/arne/test.txt« konnte nicht geöffnet werden. ). But I have no problems opening files on /homeExt with gedit.

I think this actually might not be a pure gedit problem, because I have got the same effect with ghex.

I also tried this on my laptop, which runs feisty and there I was able to open the files with gedit.

stats from my desktop:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installiert:2.22.3-0ubuntu1
  Mögliche Pakete:2.22.3-0ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

stats from my laptop:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 7.04
Release: 7.04
$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installiert:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
  Mögliche Pakete:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

PS: --g-fatal-warnings doesn't make it crash

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 6 16:58:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug, can you see the file correctly using gvfs-cat for example?

[Arne (arne-c-mueller-googlemail)]

yes:

arne@arne:/mnt/arne$ gvfs-cat test.txt
huhu irgend ein text

lalala

arne@arne:/mnt/arne$

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure what is the issue then but the bug should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting the software will read it by somebody having the issue

[Arne (arne-c-mueller-googlemail)]

interesting, I'm currently trying some of the other gvfs commands, the following output might be interesting:

arne@arne:/mnt/arne$ gvfs-open text.txt
gvfs-open: file:///mnt/arne/text.txt: Fehler beim Öffnen des Ortes: Fehler beim Untersuchen der Datei /mnt/arne/text.txt mit fstat(): No such file or directory
arne@arne:/mnt/arne$

arne@arne:/mnt/arne$ gvfs-info test.txt
display name: test.txt
edit name: test.txt
name: test.txt
type: regular
size: 30
attributes:
  standard::name: test.txt
  standard::type: 1
  standard::size: 30
  standard::display-name: test.txt
  standard::edit-name: test.txt
  standard::copy-name: test.txt
  standard::content-type: text/plain
  standard::icon: GThemedIcon:0x8056980
  standard::fast-content-type: text/plain
  unix::device: 23
  unix::inode: 8804771692546
  unix::mode: 33188
  unix::nlink: 1
  unix::uid: 1003
  unix::gid: 100
  unix::rdev: 0
  unix::block-size: 8192
  unix::blocks: 8
  time::modified: 1233604523
  time::modified-usec: 0
  time::access: 1234532582
  time::access-usec: 0
  time::changed: 1233936004
  time::changed-usec: 0
  etag::value: 1233604523:0
  id::file: l23:8804771692546
  id::filesystem: l23
  owner::user: arne
  owner::user-real: Arne Mueller
  owner::group: users
  access::can-read: TRUE
  access::can-write: TRUE
  access::can-execute: FALSE
  access::can-rename: TRUE
  access::can-delete: TRUE
  access::can-trash: FALSE
arne@arne:/mnt/arne$

[Arne (arne-c-mueller-googlemail)]

thanks a lot, I'll make a report at bugzilla.gnome.org then.

[Arne (arne-c-mueller-googlemail)]

Finally I found the fix:

both gedit and ghex are missing a AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in their autoconf configure scripts (configure.ac, configure.in).

adding a line with AC_SYS_LARGEFILE fixes it.

I've also posted this at the gedit bugtracker at bugzilla.gnome.org, thus I hope an updated version should be there soon.

For reference: It's bug 571632 there. ( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571632 )

cheers, Arne

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your work to get that fixed in GNOME

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 2.25.8-0ubuntu1

---------------
gedit (2.25.8-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Misc bugfixes (lp: #326237)
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated gtksourceview requirement
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
    - new version update

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:26:53 +0100